Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2021) 191–207
Keywords:
Maimonides, Moses,
;
Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon,
;
Pietism History
;
Jewish philosophy Middle Ages, 500-1500
Abstract:
This essay examines the influence of Moses Maimonides’s (1138–1204) theory of law and the supererogatory ideal on the pietist vision championed by his son, Abraham (1186–1237). It focuses on the place of pietism within the framework of the overarching aims of the law and on Abraham’s construction of a pietist discipline modeled on his father’s legal thinking. It identifies several ways in which Abraham hewed closely to his father’s legal and ethical rubric even as he created an innovative system of pietism in the process. Here, as elsewhere, Abraham’s thought ought to be understood, in part, as a conscious development of Maimonides’s theoretical foundation into a practical vision for pietism.
DOI:
10.1163/9789004460942_012
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