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Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments

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dc.creator Albert D. Friedberg
dc.date 2021-02-11T10:43:19Z
dc.date 2021-02-11T10:43:19Z
dc.date 2016-09-13 15:46:33
dc.date 2014
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-18T19:29:37Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-18T19:29:37Z
dc.identifier 19625
dc.identifier https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/44208
dc.identifier https://www.amazon.com/Crafting-613-Commandments-Enumeration-Classification/dp/1618113879
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dc.description 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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dc.language eng
dc.publisher Academic Studies Press
dc.rights open access
dc.subject GN1-890
dc.subject code of law
dc.subject Commandments
dc.title Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments
dc.resourceType book
dc.alternateIdentifier 9781618111678
dc.alternateIdentifier 9781618113870
dc.licenseCondition Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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dc.relationisbn 9781618111678
dc.relationisbn 9781618113870
dc.pages 400


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