Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) - Menachem Kellner - Books - Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization - 9781906764159 - February 3, 2011
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Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) New edition

Menachem Kellner

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Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization) New edition

Many books on Maimonides have been written and still more will appear. Few present Maimonides, as Menachem Kellner does, against the actual religious background that informed his many innovative and influential choices. Kellner not only analyzes the thought of the great religious thinker but contextualizes it in terms of what he calls the 'proto-kabbalistic' Judaism that preceded him. Kellner shows how the Judaism that Maimonides knew had come to conceptualize the world as an enchanted universe, governed by occult affinities. He shows why Maimonides rejected this and how he went about doing it. Kellner argues that Maimonides' attempted reformation failed, the clearest proof of that being the success of the kabbalistic counter-reformation which his writings provoked. Kellner shows how Maimonides rethought Judaism in different ways. It is in highlighting this process and identifying Maimonides as a religious reformer that this book makes its key contribution. Maimonides created a new Judaism, 'disenchanted,' depersonalized, and challenging; a religion that is at the same time elitistic and universalistic.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 3, 2011
ISBN13 9781906764159
Publishers Littman Library Of Jewish Civilization
Pages 364
Dimensions 589 g
Language English  
Contributor Moshe Idel

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