Language:
French
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Revue des Etudes Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
179,1-2 (2020) 115-132
Keywords:
Nahmanides,
;
Reward (Jewish theology)
;
Heaven Judaism
;
History of doctrines
;
Jewish philosophy Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Soul Judaism Middle Ages, 600-1500
;
History of doctrines
Abstract:
The problem of the destiny of the human soul after death and, in eschatological times, after the resurrection, were one of the major points of contentions in the so-called 'Maimonidean controversies' in the Middle Ages. In his work Ša'ar ha-Gemul, Naḥmanides tackles the issue and develops a trinary cosmology beyond the Maimonidean intellect/body binarism and makes way for the reality of intermediary worlds, spiritual but localized, in parallel with an analogous anthropology and hermeneutics. What transpires is that Naḥmanides makes use of al-Ġazālī’s critique of a strictly philosophical understanding of spiritual realities, and that he is well aware of the philosophical debates of his time.
DOI:
10.2143/REJ.179.1.3287591
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