Book Launch: After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World by Prof. Marc Herman скачать в хорошем качестве

Book Launch: After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World by Prof. Marc Herman

After Revelation offers a dynamic new perspective on medieval Jewish legal thought and its integration in the wider Islamic world. Here, Marc D. Herman demonstrates that Jews were fully conversant in their contemporaries’ ideas about revelation, law, and legal interpretation. Bookended by the two luminaries of medieval Judaism—Saadia Gaon and Moses Maimonides—After Revelation analyzes the legal theory that medieval Jews produced in Islamic lands, mostly in Arabic, and reveals previously unrecognized commonalities between Jewish and Islamic constructions of religious law. Herman tackles one of the central doctrines of post-biblical Judaism: that God had supplemented the written Hebrew Bible with an Oral Torah. Tracing this idea from Baghdad to Córdoba to Cairo, he shows that the Oral Torah took many new forms in the medieval Islamic world. After Revelation makes plain that medieval Judaism took the shapes that it did largely because of contact with Islam. Prof. Herman is joined in conversation by Prof. Martin Lockshin (York University's Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies) and Prof. Miriam Goldstein (the Hebrew University).