Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Note on Transliteration
- Note on Sources and Conventions
- Introduction: A Portrait of the Artist
- 1 In God’s Image
- 2 The ‘Great Thing’ and the ‘Small Thing’: Mishneh Torah as Microcosm
- 3 Emanation
- 4 Return
- 5 From Theory to History, via Midrash: A Commentary on ‘Laws of the Foundations of the Torah’, 6: 9 and 7: 3
- 6 Conclusion: Mishneh Torah as Parable
- Appendix I The Books and Sections of Mishneh Torah
- Appendix II The Philosophical Background
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of Citations
- Index of Subjects
Index of Subjects
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Note on Transliteration
- Note on Sources and Conventions
- Introduction: A Portrait of the Artist
- 1 In God’s Image
- 2 The ‘Great Thing’ and the ‘Small Thing’: Mishneh Torah as Microcosm
- 3 Emanation
- 4 Return
- 5 From Theory to History, via Midrash: A Commentary on ‘Laws of the Foundations of the Torah’, 6: 9 and 7: 3
- 6 Conclusion: Mishneh Torah as Parable
- Appendix I The Books and Sections of Mishneh Torah
- Appendix II The Philosophical Background
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index of Citations
- Index of Subjects
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah , pp. 433 - 445Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2015