Description: Further DetailsTitle: Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic AuthorityCondition: NewEAN: 9780791429228ISBN: 9780791429228Publisher: State University of New York PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/28/1996Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 25mmItem Weight: 236gAuthor: Menachem KellnerLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 0791429229Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: SUNY series in Jewish PhilosophyDescription: Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and open inquiry in matters of science and philosophy. Maimonides affirmed, not the superiority of the "moderns" (the scholars of his and subsequent generations) over the "ancients" (the Tannaim and Amoraim, the Rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud) but the inherent equality of the two. The equality presented here is not equality of halakhic authority, but equality of ability, of essential human characteristics.In order to substantiate these claims, Kellner explores the related idea that Maimonides does not adopt the notion of "the decline of the generations," according to which each succeeding generation, or each succeeding epoch, is in some significant and religiously relevant sense inferior to preceding generations or epochs.Release Year: 1996 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of
Title: Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of
EAN: 9780791429228
ISBN: 9780791429228
Release Date: 03/28/1996
Release Year: 1996
ISBN-10: 0791429229
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy
Book Title: Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority
Number of Pages: 137 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: STATE University of New York Press
Topic: Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Judaism / General, Religion & Science, Jewish
Item Height: 1 in
Publication Year: 1996
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion, History
Item Weight: 8.3 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Menachem M. Kellner
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Suny Series in Jewish Philosophy Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
