02485nam 2200541 450 991046638970332120200520144314.01-80034-038-91-909821-08-X(CKB)3830000000059789(MiAaPQ)EBC5485056(UkCbUP)CR9781909821088(Au-PeEL)EBL5485056(OCoLC)1048798581(StDuBDS)EDZ0002316556(EXLCZ)99383000000005978920200724e20202006 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMaimonides' confrontation with mysticism /Menachem Kellner[electronic resource]Oxford :The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization,2020.1 online resource (364 pages)Liverpool scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2006.1-906764-15-8 1-904113-29-X Includes bibliographical references, discography and index.This work presents Maimonides against the religious background that informed his many innovative and influential choices. The text not only analyses the thought of the great religious thinker but contextualizes it in terms of the 'proto-kabbalistic' Judaism that preceded him. The volume shows how the Judaism that Maimonides knew had come to conceptualize the world as an enchanted universe, governed by occult affinities. It shows why Maimonides rejected this and how he went about doing it. The book argues that Maimonides' attempted reformation failed, the clearest proof of that being the success of the kabbalistic counter-reformation which his writings provoked. It shows how Maimonides rethought Judaism in different ways.Liverpool scholarship online.MysticismJudaismCabalaHistoryTo 1500JudaismEssence, genius, natureRabbinical literatureHistory and criticismMysticismJudaism.CabalaHistoryJudaismEssence, genius, nature.Rabbinical literatureHistory and criticism.296.181Kellner Menachem Marc1946-867416StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910466389703321Maimonides' confrontation with mysticism1936127UNINA