LEADER 04376oam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910954577903321 005 20240417035532.0 010 $a9780791489239 010 $a079148923X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000233658 035 $a(EBL)3407921 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000676360 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11931964 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676360 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10695857 035 $a(PQKB)11147551 035 $a(OCoLC)794928161 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse13991 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407921 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10587119 035 $a(DE-B1597)684095 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791489239 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407921 035 $a(Perlego)2671503 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000233658 100 $a20010613h20022002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMaimonides and the hermeneutics of concealment $edeciphering scripture and midrash in The guide of the perplexed /$fJames Arthur Diamond 210 1$aAlbany :$cState University of New York Press,$d2002. 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource (x, 235 pages) 225 0 $aSUNY series in Jewish Philosophy 225 0$aSUNY series in Jewish philosophy 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780791452486 311 08$a0791452484 311 08$a9780791452479 311 08$a0791452476 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-222) and index. 327 $a""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""INTRODUCTION: The Poetry of Midrash and Heterogeneity of Scripture""; ""Midrash on Midrash""; ""Shir Hashirim Rabbah 1:8 and the Parabolic Method""; ""Genesis Rabbah 9 and Flash Technique""; ""Genesis Rabbah 27 and Prophetic Radicalism""; ""Intertextual Foils in the Guide""; ""Parabolic Precision vs. Parabolic Flourish""; ""Solomon s ""Married Harlot"" as Foil to Jacob""; """"The Lord hath forsaken the earth""""; ""Divine Immutability and Providence"" 327 $a""I: 11 The ""Sitting"" of Indifference"" ""I: 12 ""Rising"" and the Role of Metatron""; ""1: 13 ""Standing on the Mount of Olives "": The Intellectualization of a Messianic Vision""; ""I: 14 ""Adam ""-Situating Man in the Providential Scheme""; ""I: 15 Moses-The Paragon of an Elitist Providence""; ""The Seven Units of Jacob's Ladder and Their Message""; ""I. ""Ladder""""; ""2. ""Set up on earth""""; ""3. ""And the top of it reached heaven""""; ""4. ""Angels of God"" (elohim)""; ""5-6. ""Ascending and descending""""; ""7. ""And behold the Lord (YHVH) stood above it"""" 327 $a""The Coalescence of Three Interpretations"" ""Chapter 111:24 of the Guide""; ""Trial Passages""; ""Omission of a Trial Passage: Bitter Waters and the Perfect Law""; ""The Quarry of Efficient Causality""; ""Reflections on the Ultimate Verses of the Guide""; ""Text and Prooftext""; ""Back Matter""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""Back Cover"" 330 $aWinner of the 2003 Nachman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic Scholarship presented by the Canadian Jewish Book AwardsMaimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment demonstrates the type of hermeneutic that the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides (1138?1204) engaged in throughout his treatise, The Guide of the Perplexed. By comprehensively analyzing Maimonides' use of rabbinic and scriptural sources, James Arthur Diamond argues that, far from being merely prooftexts, they are in fact essential components of Maimonides' esoteric stratagem. Diamond's close reading of biblical and rabbinic citations in the Guide not only penetrates its multilayered structure to arrive at its core meaning, but also distinguishes Maimonides as a singular contributor to the Jewish exegetical tradition. 410 0$aSUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy 606 $aMidrash$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aMidrash$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a181/.06 700 $aDiamond$b James Arthur$01804550 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954577903321 996 $aMaimonides and the hermeneutics of concealment$94352630 997 $aUNINA