Crafting the 613 commandments Maimonides on the enumeration, classification, and formulation of the scriptural commandments
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 l...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Academic Studies Press
2014
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Colección: | Holocaust (Boston, Mass.)
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427914906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Abbreviations, citations, translations, and transliterations
- Editions Used
- English Translations and Transliterations
- Acknowledgments
- CHAPTER I. Introduction
- CHAPTER II. Important Definitions and Concepts
- CHAPTER III. Typology of Mitsvot
- CHAPTER IV. Logically Inconclusive Individuations
- CHAPTER V. Innovative Commandments
- CHAPTER VI. Revisiting the Term Mitsvat 'Aseh
- CHAPTER VII. Peshateh Di-Qera
- CHAPTER VIII. The Participial Form and Other Peculiarities
- CHAPTER IX. When Mitsvah Stands Alone
- CHAPTER X. Summary and Conclusion
- Excursus
- Postscript
- Bibliography
- Citations Index
- Index of Names