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Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed

Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed

Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed Hardback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Daniel Davies

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Hardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed is one of the most discussed books in Jewish history. More than 800 years after the author's death it remains hotly debated, with readers seeking secret philosophical messages behind its explicit teac
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  • Title Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed
  • Author Daniel Davies
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, 2011. 224p. Hardback. Series: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion. Davies is clearly well versed in Maimonides
  • Publication date 2011-09-15
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ria9780199768738_inp
  • ISBN 9780199768738 / 0199768730
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, Medieval, Mysticism - Judaism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010044085
  • Dewey Decimal Code 181.06
  • Quantity available 783

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Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed is one of the most discussed books in Jewish history. More than 800 years after the author's death it remains hotly debated, with readers seeking secret philosophical messages behind its explicit teachings, a quest fueled partly by Maimonides' own statement that certain parts of the Guide are based upon ideas that conflict with other parts. Through close readings of Maimonides' work, Daniel Davies addresses the major debates surrounding its secret doctrine. He argues that perceived contradictions in Maimonides' accounts of creation and divine attributes can be squared by paying attention to the various ways in which he presented his arguments.

Davies shows how a coherent theological view can emerge from the many layers of the Guide. However, Maimonides' clear declaration that certain matters must be hidden from the masses cannot be ignored, and the kind of inconsistency that is peculiar to the Guide requires another explanation. It is found in the purpose Maimonides assigns to the Guide: scriptural exegesis. Davies offers a detailed exposition of Maimonides' interpretation, the deepest "secret of the Torah" which, in Maimonides' works, shares its name with metaphysics. By connecting the secret with currents in the Islamic world, the chapters show how Maimonides devised a new method of presentation in order to imitate scripture's multi-layered manner of communication. He updated what he took to be the correct interpretation of scripture by writing it in a work appropriate for his own time and to do so he had to keep the Torah's most hidden secrets.

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  • Choice, 03/01/2012, Page 0

About the author

Daniel Davies is a Research Associate at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit at Cambridge University.
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