Introduction: Moses Maimonides: anchoring Jewish intellectual history
Setting the stage for the future of Jewish thought
Maimonides on Maimonides: loving God rabbinically and philosophically
Nahmanides on Jewish identity (13th century): launching the Kabbalistic assault
R. Yom Tov ben Abraham Ishbili (13th-14th century): pushing back the assault
Isaac Abarbanel (15th century): the Akedah of faith vs. the Akedah of reason
Meir ibn Gabbai (16th century): the aimlessness of philosophy
Spinoza (17th century) and a Buberian afterword (20th century): reorienting Maimonides' scriptural hermeneutic
Hermann Cohen (19th century): a new religion of reason out of the sources of Maimonides
R. Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (19th century): loving God strictly rabbinically
R. Abraham Isaac Kook (20th century): a Kabbalistic reinvention of Maimonides' legal code
Conclusion: the Maimonidean filigree of Jewish thought: Kafka, Scholem, and beyond.
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Maimonides and the shaping of the Jewish Canon by James Arthur Diamond. ISBN 9781107063341. Published by Cambridge University Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
