{"product_id":"maimonides-on-the-decline-of-the-generations-and-the-nature-of-rabbinic-authority-9780791429228","title":"Maimonides on the Decline of the Generations and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority","description":"Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and open inquiry in matters of science and philosophy. Maimonides affirmed, not the superiority of the moderns (the scholars of his and subsequent generations) over the ancients (the Tannaim and Amoraim, the Rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud) but the inherent equality of the two. The equality presented here is not equality of halakhic authority, but equality of ability, of essential human characteristics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn order to substantiate these claims, Kellner explores the related idea that Maimonides does not adopt the notion of the decline of the generations, according to which each succeeding generation, or each succeeding epoch, is in some significant and religiously relevant sense inferior to preceding generations or epochs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Menachem Kellner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 5.95w x 0.36d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791429228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMenachem Kellner\u003c\/b\u003e teaches medieval Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish History and Thought and is Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought and is Dean of Students at the University of Haifa. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eDogma in Medieval Jewish Thought; Torat he-Ikkarim ba-Philosophiah ha-Yehudit Bimei ha-Benayim; Maimonides on Human Perfection\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMaimonides on Judaism and the Jewish People\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by SUNY Press. He is translator of Isaac Abravanel's \u003ci\u003ePrinciples of Faith\u003c\/i\u003e and Levi ben Gershom's \u003ci\u003eCommentary on Song of Songs\u003c\/i\u003e; and editor of \u003ci\u003eContemporary Jewish Ethics; Rosh Amanah\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThe Pursuit of the Ideal: Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by SUNY Press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40133679284339,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":32.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_1871639e-9320-41bd-8fc2-422bff1cd374.jpg?v=1654175679","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/maimonides-on-the-decline-of-the-generations-and-the-nature-of-rabbinic-authority-9780791429228","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}