“How Would He Not Protest God’s Putting to Death the Righteous Child?”: Maimonides, His Interlocutors, and Eleazar Ashkenazi Read the Akedah

Medieval Jewish readings of the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac, remain almost entirely oblivious to the antinomy between ethics and the revealed divine command that many modern interpretations find at the heart of the story. This study explores an exception, the teaching of the fourteenth-century rati...

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Main Author: Lawee, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2023, Volume: 26, Issue: 2, Pages: 233-261
Further subjects:B Maimonides
B Eleazar Ashkenazi
B medieval rationalism
B Akedah
B Binding of Isaac
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