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Isaac Arama’s “Nightmare:” Closing the Philosophical Exegetical Chapter Maimonides Opened

Isaac Arama’s “Nightmare:” Closing the Philosophical Exegetical Chapter Maimonides Opened Isaac Arama (1420–1494), the most influential preacher in the generation of the expulsion from Spain, attempted a balance between what he considered a foreign Greek body of rational knowledge on the one hand, and a supra-rational revealed knowledge native to Judaism’s prophetic tradition on the other. This article focuses on an aspect of his creative exegesis and in particular his engagement with Maimonides that was powerful enough, in addition to other historical factors of course, to close the chapter on Jewish philosophical exegesis which Maimonides spearheaded. Often, his own exegesis is pointedly constructed to subvert Maimonides’ own exegesis and thus offer an alternative direction for biblical commentary that mediates between the rigor of philosophical reasoning, or the authority of the mind, and the existential faith commitment to revelation, or the authority of God. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Jewish Studies Brill

Isaac Arama’s “Nightmare:” Closing the Philosophical Exegetical Chapter Maimonides Opened

European Journal of Jewish Studies , Volume 10 (2): 22 – Aug 16, 2016

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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1025-9996
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1872-471X
DOI
10.1163/1872471X-12341292
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Abstract

Isaac Arama (1420–1494), the most influential preacher in the generation of the expulsion from Spain, attempted a balance between what he considered a foreign Greek body of rational knowledge on the one hand, and a supra-rational revealed knowledge native to Judaism’s prophetic tradition on the other. This article focuses on an aspect of his creative exegesis and in particular his engagement with Maimonides that was powerful enough, in addition to other historical factors of course, to close the chapter on Jewish philosophical exegesis which Maimonides spearheaded. Often, his own exegesis is pointedly constructed to subvert Maimonides’ own exegesis and thus offer an alternative direction for biblical commentary that mediates between the rigor of philosophical reasoning, or the authority of the mind, and the existential faith commitment to revelation, or the authority of God.

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European Journal of Jewish StudiesBrill

Published: Aug 16, 2016

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