Introduction: Moses Maimonides: anchoring Jewish intellectual history 1. Setting the stage for the future of Jewish thought 2. Maimonides on Maimonides: loving God rabbinically and philosophically 3. Nahmanides on Jewish identity (thirteenth century): launching the Kabbalistic assault 4. R. Yom Tov ben Abraham Ishbili (thirteenth-fourteenth centuries): pushing back the assault 5. Isaac Abarbanel (fifteenth century): the Akedah of faith versus the Akedah of reason 6. Meir Ibn Gabbai (sixteenth century): the aimlessness of philosophy 7. Spinoza (seventeenth century) and a Buberian afterword (twentieth century): reorienting Maimonides's scriptural hermeneutic 8. Hermann Cohen (nineteenth century): a new religion of reason out of the sources of Maimonides 9. R. Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (ninteenth century): loving God strictly rabbinically 10. R. Abraham Isaac Kook (twentieth century): a Kabbalistic reinvention of Maimonides's legal code Conclusion: the Maimonidean filigree of Jewish thought: Kafka, Scholem, and beyond.
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