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This pioneering study explores the intersecting approaches of Moses and Abraham Maimonides to divine illumination and revelation of the name Ehyeh asher Ehyeh, "I am that I am / I will be who I will be." The two thinkers offer fascinating, complementary visions of what it means to encounter the Divine.
List of contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Maimonides and Abraham Maimonides on Created Light, Created Word, and the Evant at Mount Sinai
1. Abraham Maimonides on Created Light in the Cleft of the Rock: Exodus 33:22
2. Maimonides on Created Light: An Esoteric Interpretation
3. Abraham and Moses Maimonides on Cloud and Glory: Exodus 16:9–10/
Guide III:9
4. Abraham Maimonides on Created Light in the Preparation for the Sinai Event
5. Maimonides on the Theophany at Mount Sinai
6. Abraham Maimonides on the Created Word at Mount Sinai: Between Maimonides and R. Abraham he-Ḥasid
7. Abraham and Moses Maimonides on Created Light in the Vision of the Nobles
Part Two. Ehyeh asher Ehyeh and the Tetragrammaton: Between Eternity and Necessary Existence
8. Introduction:
Ehyeh asher Ehyeh and the Tetragrammaton
9. Rabbinic Interpretations of
Ehyeh asher Ehyeh
10. The Interpretation of Saadya Gaon
11. Saadya’s Long Commentary to Exodus 3:13–15
12. Abraham Maimonides on Saadya Gaon
13. The Interpretation of Maimonides
14. Abraham on Eternity and Relationship
Conclusion
About the author
Diana Lobel is Associate Professor of Religion at Boston University. She is the author of Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Halevi¿s Kuzari (2000), A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bäya Ibn Paq¿däs Duties of the Heart (2007), The Quest for God and the Good (2011), and Philosophies of Happiness (2017).
Summary
This pioneering study explores the intersecting approaches of Moses and Abraham Maimonides to the spark of divine illumination and revelation of the divine name Ehyeh asher Ehyeh, "I am that I am / I will be who I will be".
