Crafting the 613 Commandments : Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments

• Tác giả: Albert D Friedberg
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1618118486
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 296.172 Judaism
• Thông tin xuất bản: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 237040
• Chủ đề: 1. Judaism: sacred texts

Tóm tắt

Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegemenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law. This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible rationale for using such a tradition. It also explores many of the philosophical and ethical ideas animating the composition of such a list. In the book's second half, Friedberg examines the manner by which Maimonides formulated positive commandments in the Mishneh Torah, leading him to suggest new dimensions in Maimonides' legal theory.