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James Arthur Diamond. Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment: Deciphering Scripture and Midrash in The Guide of the Perplexed. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. x, 235 pp.; Menachem Lorberbaum. Politics and the Limits of Law: Secularizing the Political in Medieval Jewish Thought. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. xii, 216 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2005

Alfred Ivry
Alfred Ivry
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New York University, New York, New York
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Extract

The two books before us expand the horizons of Maimonidean studies, on the divergent planes of literature and politics. James Diamond's study of Maimonides' use of the Bible and midrash is a tour de force of literary analysis, while Menachem Lorberbaum offers in part a view of Maimonides' attitude to political authority of considerable relevance today.

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Medieval
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AJS Review , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , November 2004 , pp. 361 - 364
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© 2004 by the Association for Jewish Studies

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