Two Moments in the Biography of Qedushah (a.k.a. Holiness)
This paper analyzes two transformative conceptions of qedushah (holiness) in medieval Jewish thought, Moses Maimonides’s and Moses Nahmanides’s. Maimonides reduces qedushah to the Mosaic commandments which he reconceives as communal institutions to constrain bodily desires and promote intellectualis...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2022
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2022, Volume: 115, Issue: 3, Pages: 387-415 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
/ Nachmanides, Moses 1194-1270
/ Kedushah
/ Holiness
/ Legislation (Theology)
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism NCA Ethics TG High Middle Ages |
| Further subjects: | B
Maimonides
B qedushah / holiness B Imitatio Dei B Commandments B Nahmanides B scoundrels |
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