Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism.(Book review)

From: Philosophy East and West | Date: July 1, 2008| Author: Botwinick, Aryeh | Copyright information

Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism. By Menachem Kellner. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2006. Pp. 364. Hardcover. $49.50.

Menachem Kellner's interesting and important book, Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism, tries to situate Maimonides in his immediate Jewish environment, which Kellner characterizes as proto-kabbalistic. The dominant strains in the religious beliefs and practices of Maimonides' Jewish contemporaries were essentialist and re...

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