Crafting the 613 commandments : Maimonides on the enumeration, classification, and formulation of the scriptural commandments

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Friedberg, Albert D. (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press 2014
2013.
Series:Holocaust (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects:
Maimonides, Moses, > 1135-1204.
Jewish philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Judaism.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009427914906719
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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