Maimonides on the "Decline of the generations" and the nature of rabbinic authority
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Maimonides on the "Decline of the generations" and the nature of rabbinic authority
(SUNY series in Jewish philosophy)
State University of New York Press, c1996
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- : cloth
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Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
Preface Introduction
1. The Decline of the Generations
2. Maimonides on Nature and Miracles
3. Maimonides on Decline
4. Maimonides' Attitude towards the Authority of the Rabbis in non-Halakhic Matters
5. Maimonides on the "Advance" of the Generations
6. On the Nature of the Rabbis' Authority
7. Concluding (Quasi-) Scientific Postscript
Notes
References
Citations from Maimonides' Works
General Index
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