Maimonides and mysticism

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: June 25, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Jacob Neusner
Jerusalem Post
06-25-1999
HOMO MYSTICUS. A Guide to Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed by Jose Faur. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press. 266 pp. Price not stated.

Jose Faur, professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University, brings to the study of Rabbinic Judaism mastery of three quite distinct bodies of learning: the talmudic and midrashic sources and medieval rabbinic sources, contemporary semiotics, and the Sephardi-Arabic tradition of philosophy nurtured among Jews from the Arabic-speaking countries whose families originated in Spain before 1492. It is a fusion that yields ...

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