Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism

Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism

Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah

Herman, Marc; Brown, Jeremy P.

Brill

01/2022

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Acknowledgements



Introduction



1 The Commandments as a Discursive Nexus of Medieval Judaism

?Marc Herman and Jeremy P. Brown



Case Studies in Individual Commandments



2 De? Mah?soro as the Key to Jewish Almsgiving: A Maimonidean Interpretive Innovation and Its Legal Afterlife to the Fifteenth Century

?Alyssa M. Gray



3 The Taqqanah of the Moredet in the Middle Ages

?Judith R. Baskin



4 An Early Kabbalistic Explanation of Temple Sacrifice: Text and Study

?Jonathan Dauber



The Ramifications of Maimonides



5 Early Evaluation of Maimonides's Enumeration of the Commandments against the Background of the Eastern Maimonidean Controversy

?Marc Herman



6 Maimonides's Long Journey from Greek to Jewish Ethics

?Albert Dov Friedberg



7 The Reasons for the Commandments in Isaac Ibn Lat?if's The Gate of Heaven (1238)

?Guadalupe Gonzalez Dieguez



Accounting for the Decalogue



8 The Ten Commandments Are Implanted in Human Minds: Abraham Ibn Ezra's Rational Approach to the Decalogue

?Mariano Gomez Aranda



9 Decoding the Decalogue: Theosophical Re-engraving of the Ten Commandments in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah

?Avishai Bar-Asher



Discourses of ?a?ame ha-mi?vot: Tosafism, Rhineland Pietism, Egyptian Pietism, Kabbalah, Sabbatianism



10 T?a?ame ha-mis?vot in Medieval Ashkenaz

?Ephraim Kanarfogel



11 Pietism in the Law and the Law of Pietism: From Moses to Abraham Maimonides

?Elisha Russ-Fishbane



12 A Castilian Debate about the Aims and Limits of Theurgic Practice: Rationalizing Incest Taboos in the Zohar, Moses de Leon, and Joseph of Hamadan

?Leore Sachs-Shmueli



13 Ascesis, Hypernomianism, and the Excess of Lack: Semiotic Transfiguration of the Somatic

?Elliot R. Wolfson



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Jewish history; Jewish law; Jewish legal thought; Jewish mysticism; Maimonides; Medieval Jewish philosophy; Rabbinic Judaism; Ten Commandments; biblical exegesis; esotericism; hermeneutics