Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text
- 1 Maimonides’ Critique of the Jewish Culture of his Day
- 2 The Institutional Character of Halakhah
- 3 Holiness
- 4 Ritual Purity and Impurity
- 5 The Hebrew Language
- 6 Kavod, Shekhinah, and Created Light
- 7 Jews and Non-Jews
- 8 Angels
- Afterword: Contemporary Resistance to the Maimonidean Reform
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of Citations from Moses Maimonides and Judah Halevi
- General Index
Dedication
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text
- 1 Maimonides’ Critique of the Jewish Culture of his Day
- 2 The Institutional Character of Halakhah
- 3 Holiness
- 4 Ritual Purity and Impurity
- 5 The Hebrew Language
- 6 Kavod, Shekhinah, and Created Light
- 7 Jews and Non-Jews
- 8 Angels
- Afterword: Contemporary Resistance to the Maimonidean Reform
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of Citations from Moses Maimonides and Judah Halevi
- General Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism , pp. v - viPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2006