Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism - Studies in Law, Philosophy, Pietism, and Kabbalah

Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah.

About the author

Jeremy P. Brown, Ph.D. (2015), New York University, is Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as Simon and Ethel Flegg Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University. His research and teaching focus on kabbalah and medieval Judaism.

Marc Herman, Ph.D. (2016), University of Pennsylvania, is a Harry Starr Fellow in Judaica at the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has held fellowships at Columbia University, Fordham University, the University of Michigan, and Yale Law School. He researches and teaches medieval Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic legal thought.

Product details

• Assisted by: Marc Herman (Editor), Jeremy P Brown (Editor), Jeremy P. Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.01.2022
• EAN: 9789004460935
• ISBN: 978-90-04-46093-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Weight: 643 g
• Series: Études Sur Le Judaïsme Médiéva
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism