The Resurrection of the Dead in Maimonides A Jewish-Arabic Thinker between Religious Tradition and the Muslim Philosophy of his Time
Rabbinic Judaism professes faith in the resurrection, although there is no evidence for it in the Torah. Maimonides raised it to a fundamental tenet of faith but excluded the resurrection as the reunion of the soul with the body from the expectations for the world to come, which is reserved for the...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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SCM Press
2024
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Concilium
Year: 2024, Issue: 2, Pages: 60-69 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204
/ Resurrection
/ Rabbinic Judaism
/ Islamic philosophy
/ Islamic theology
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism FA Theology NBQ Eschatology TG High Middle Ages VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Resurrection
B Judaism B ISLAMIC philosophy |
| Summary: | Rabbinic Judaism professes faith in the resurrection, although there is no evidence for it in the Torah. Maimonides raised it to a fundamental tenet of faith but excluded the resurrection as the reunion of the soul with the body from the expectations for the world to come, which is reserved for the soul. This exposed him to the suspicion of not really believing in the resurrection. His paradoxical position between preserving traditional religious convictions and adopting contemporary philosophy reflects similar tensions in the Muslim theology of his time. After his death the argument in Western European Judaism was continued, and the intermediate position of Nachmanides became important. |
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| ISSN: | 0010-5236 |
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