Jewish Concepts of Scripture

130 James A. Diamond time,” while the affi rmation of idolatry is tantamount to the Torah’s repudi- ation.17 Th is extends to th ...

Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides 131 new rabbinic mandate emerges vis-à-vis the enterprise of scriptural exege- sis: rabbinic ...

132 James A. Diamond a previous revelation at the waters of Marah that Maimonides designates as free of secondary intentions, ci ...

Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides 133 maturity, one must abandon this study regimen in favor of exclusive devo- tion to Talmud ...

134 James A. Diamond (ibid.). Th is notion qualifi es his pronouncement Th e Rock [zur], His work is perfect as authoritative. B ...

Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides 135 of that cognitive eff ort determines one’s distance from God in thought. Scripture, for ...

136 James A. Diamond in popular images. Th e rabbinic phrase great is the power always expresses “their appreciation of the grea ...

Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides 137 Notes For a recent study of subsequent prominent Jewish philosophers, one in the sevent ...

138 James A. Diamond For the rabbinic sources claiming that the Torah existed before God cre- ated the world, see Ephraim Urbac ...

139 Chapter 9 Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides Aaron W. Hughes Introduction: Cultural and Intellectual Background R. Moses be ...

140 Aaron W. Hughes At the crossroads of these cultures stood the commanding fi gure of Nahmanides. Th e rich diversity of his w ...

Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides 141 Iberian-Jewish rationalist tradition.6 It is perhaps easier, however, to see this tensio ...

142 Aaron W. Hughes their work, singling them out as his predecessors, Nahmanides eff ectively created a triumvirate that, in th ...

Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides 143 anthropological document, it must be understood and subsequently inter- preted as a mult ...

144 Aaron W. Hughes Nahmanides’s Conception of Scripture Th e egg of the ant is as small as the outermost sphere of my limited u ...

Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides 145 is able to agree with it [BT Avodah Zarah 36a]. Why do you “devour the inheritance of th ...

146 Aaron W. Hughes emergence of kabbalah (e.g., before the fi nal redaction of the more system- atic Zohar) or because he was a ...

Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides 147 interpretation. For all, it refers to the importance of worshiping God and not other dei ...

148 Aaron W. Hughes exhausted with one hermeneutic — for example, literal, rationalist, or even mystical. Th is is what other co ...

Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides 149 indicates here, comes from penetrating the simple level of the text with the help of an ...