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Science in the Bet Midrash: studies in Maimonides
2009, Academic Studies Press
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Table of Contents

PartI: Approaches to the study of Maimonides
Introduction to part one: Approaches to the study of Maimonides
Reading Rambam approaches to the interpretation of Maimonides
Strauss' Maimonides vs. Maimonides' Maimonides : could Maimonides have been both enlightened and Orthodox?
The literary character of the Mishneh Torah : on the art of writing in Maimonides' Halakhic works
Is Maimonides' ideal person austerely rationalist?
Part II: Religious faith and dogma
Introduction to part two: Religious faith and dogma
Heresy and the nature of faith in medieval Jewish philosophy
What is heresy?
Maimonides' thirteen principles and the structure of the guide of the perplexed
Maimonides, Crescas, and Abravanel on Ex. 20:2 : a medieval Jewish exegetical dispute
Could Maimonides get into Rambam's heaven?
Returning the crown to its ancient glory : Marc Shapiro's the limits of Orthodox theology : Maimonides' thirteen principles reappraised
The virtue of faith
Part III: Science and Torah
Introduction to part three: Science and Torah
On the status of the astronomy and physics in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah and guide of the perplexed : a chapter in the history of science
Maimonides on the science of the Mishneh Torah : provisional or permanent?
Maimonides' allegiances to science and Judaism
Faith, science, and orthodoxy
Part IV: Universalism
Introduction to part four: Universalism
Chosenness not chauvinism
Maimonides on the chosen people
Was Maimonides truly universalist?
Maimonides' true religion for Jews or all humanity
Spirituality and a life of holiness : how one lives a holy life and who can do it.

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Brighton, MA
Series
EMUNOT: Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah

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Dewey Decimal Class
296.1/81
Library of Congress
BM546 .K47 2009, B759.M34

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
392

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OL23170509M
ISBN 13
9781934843215
LCCN
2009008077
OCLC/WorldCat
312096703
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7143894

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