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Maimonides as biblical interpreter / Sara Klein-Braslavy.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Hebrew Series: EmunotPublication details: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781618110435
  • 1618110438
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Maimonides as biblical interpreter.DDC classification:
  • 221.6/092 22
LOC classification:
  • BS1186 .K58 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
pt. 1. The creation of the world and the story of the Garden of Eden. A chapter in Maimonides' biblical exegesis : the interpretation of the story of the second day of creation -- On Maimonides' interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden in the Guide for the perplexed I.2 -- The creation of the world and Maimonides interpretation of Genesis 1-5 -- pt. 2. Maimonides' methods of interpreting the Bible. Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. King Solomon and metaphysical esotericism according to Maimonides -- Maimonides' exoteric and esoteric biblical interpretations in the Guide for the perplexed -- Appendix: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's interpretation of the story of the creation of man and the story of the Garden of Eden.
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Some of the articles in this volume are based on portions of Perush ha-Rambam le-sipur Beriʼat ha-ʻolam, Perush ha-Rambam la-sipurim ʻal Adam be-farashat Be-reshit, and Shelomoh ha-Melekh ṿeha-ezoṭerizm ha-filosofi be-mishnat ha-Rambam, works by the same author.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-282)-and indexes.

pt. 1. The creation of the world and the story of the Garden of Eden. A chapter in Maimonides' biblical exegesis : the interpretation of the story of the second day of creation -- On Maimonides' interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden in the Guide for the perplexed I.2 -- The creation of the world and Maimonides interpretation of Genesis 1-5 -- pt. 2. Maimonides' methods of interpreting the Bible. Maimonides' interpretation of Jacob's dream of the ladder -- Maimonides' strategy for interpreting "woman" in the Guide for the perplexed -- Maimonides and esotericism. King Solomon and metaphysical esotericism according to Maimonides -- Maimonides' exoteric and esoteric biblical interpretations in the Guide for the perplexed -- Appendix: Abraham Bar Ḥiyya's interpretation of the story of the creation of man and the story of the Garden of Eden.

Essays in English and English translations of Hebrew essays.

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