TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedberg, Albert D.
AB  - Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegemenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law. This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible rationale for using such a tradition. It also explores many of the philosophical and ethical ideas animating the composition of such a list. In the book's second half, Friedberg examines the manner by which Maimonides formulated positive commandments in the Mishneh Torah, leading him to suggest new dimensions in Maimonides' legal theory.
DO  - 10.2307/j.ctt21h4wf8
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1006476
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1135848413
KW  - Theology & Religion
KW  - Rabbinic texts
KW  - Maimonides
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - Mishneh Torah
KW  - Jewish law
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/c53e807b-9fa5-4d2b-914d-c326e167e025/1006476.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/23667
PB  - Academic Studies Press
PY  - 2014-02-01
SN  - 9781618118486
TI  - Crafting the 613 Commandments : Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments
ER  - 
