Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Natur by Menachem Marc Kellner
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Moses Maimonides medieval Judaisms leading legist and philosopher and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish selfunderstanding 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.show more
Condition : New
Author : Menachem Marc Kellner
Weight : 280
Publisher : PLYQ
Language : English
EAN : 9780791429228
ISBN10 : 0791429229
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : NA
Place of Publication : Albany NY United States
Pagination : 137
Dimensions : 154 X 227 X 10