Crafting the 613 Commandments : Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Spiritual Commandments / Albert D. Friedberg.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:- text
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations, citations, translations, and transliterations -- Editions Used -- English Translations and Transliterations -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER I. Introduction -- CHAPTER II. Important Definitions and Concepts -- CHAPTER III. Typology of Mitsvot -- CHAPTER IV. Logically Inconclusive Individuations -- CHAPTER V. Innovative Commandments -- CHAPTER VI. Revisiting the Term Mitsvat 'Aseh -- CHAPTER VII. Peshateh Di-Qera -- CHAPTER VIII. The Participial Form and Other Peculiarities -- CHAPTER IX. When Mitsvah Stands Alone -- CHAPTER X. Summary and Conclusion -- Excursus -- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Citations Index -- Index of Names
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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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