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Crafting the 613 Commandments

Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments
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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.

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Albert D. Friedberg (PhD University of Toronto, Canada) is a scholar of medieval Jewish literature and philosophy and early rabbinic literature. His published articles include A New Clue in the Dating of the Composition of the Book of Esther, and Maimonides' Reinterpretation of the Thirteenth Article of Faith: Another Look at his Essay on Resurrection.
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April 3rd, 2014
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  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
400
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152x229x21
ISBN-13
9781618113870
Product ID
22301694

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