- Additional Authors
- Gillis, David, 1954-
- Description
- 1 online resource (401 pages) : illustration.
- Series Statement
- The Littman library of Jewish civilization
- Uniform Title
- Maimonides the universalist (Online)
- Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
- Alternative Title
- Maimonides the universalist (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-353) and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Knowledge: to know is to love -- Love: Abraham, Moses, and the meaning of circumcision -- Seasons: Hanukah and Purim reconfigured -- Women: marital and universal peace -- Holiness: commandments as intruments -- Asseverations: socila responsibility and sanctifying God's name -- Agriculture: sanctifying all human beings -- Temple service: the divinity of the comandments -- Offerings: the morality of the commandments -- Reitual purity: intellectual and moral purity -- Damages: who is a Jew? -- Acquision: slavery versus universal humkanity -- Civil laws: God of Aristotle in the God of Abraham -- Judges: Messianic universalism -- Appendix: Maimonides' cosmic paradigm.
- LCCN
- 2020479427
- OCLC
- ssj0002686245
- Author
Kellner, Menachem Marc, 1946-
- Title
Maimonides the universalist [electronic resource] : the ethical horizons of the Mishneh Torah / Menachem Kellner and David Gillis.
- Imprint
London : The Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization, [2020]
- Series
The Littman library of Jewish civilization
Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-353) and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Gillis, David, 1954-