Marc Herman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3830608 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marc Herman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Herman |
| SIGNATURE | HERMAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Almohad-Era Jewish Jurisprudence
Sarah Stroumsa’s 2009 Maimonides in his World spurred much reconsideration of Almohad influence on medieval Jewish thought. Many now accept that Almohad ideology was at least one crucible in which Moses Maimonides’s thought was forged. This paper broadens exploration of Almohad influences to include Maimonides’s understudied contemporary Joseph ben Judah Ibn ʿAqnīn. It focuses on the jurisprudential theories propounded by these two thinkers in or…
Two Themes in Maimonides's Modifications to His Legal Works
The survival of the personal copy of Commentary on the Mishnah by Maimonides (1138-1204), which he revised throughout his life, provides an unparalleled window into the ways he continually reconsidered legal and conceptual questions. This manuscript covers five of the six orders of the Mishnah and contains countless corrections and emendations, the vast majority in the author's own hand. This article argues that Maimonides's intense interest in s…
What Is the Subject of Principle 2 in Maimonides's Book of the Commandments ? Towards a New Understanding of Maimonides's Approach to Extrascriptural Law
Among Maimonides's many statements about extrascriptural laws in rabbinic literature, none has attracted as much attention as principle 2 in his Book of the Commandments . Modern scholars have largely understood this text to claim that very few of the laws found in rabbinic literature are Sinaitic in origin and of biblical status. Yet, until the twentieth century, principle 2 was primarily read as distinguishing between revealed laws that constit…
Prophetic Authority in the Legal Thought of Saadia Gaon
Building on medieval claims, modern scholars have long asserted that Saadia ben Joseph Gaon depicted the Oral Torah and extra-biblical institutions as rooted in divine authority primarily, if not exclusively, in order to parry Karaite claims. This essay argues that focus on Karaism obscures a cross-cultural factor that helped shape Saadia's claims, namely, that Muslim jurists prior to and contemporaneous with Saadia likewise jettisoned non-prophe…
Two Themes in Maimonides's Modifications to His Legal Works
The survival of the personal copy of Commentary on the Mishnah by Maimonides (1138-1204), which he revised throughout his life, provides an unparalleled window into the ways he continually reconsidered legal and conceptual questions. This manuscript covers five of the six orders of the Mishnah and contains countless corrections and emendations, the vast majority in the author's own hand. This article argues that Maimonides's intense interest in s…
Prophetic Authority in the Legal Thought of Saadia Gaon
Building on medieval claims, modern scholars have long asserted that Saadia ben Joseph Gaon depicted the Oral Torah and extra-biblical institutions as rooted in divine authority primarily, if not exclusively, in order to parry Karaite claims. This essay argues that focus on Karaism obscures a cross-cultural factor that helped shape Saadia's claims, namely, that Muslim jurists prior to and contemporaneous with Saadia likewise jettisoned non-prophe…
What Is the Subject of Principle 2 in Maimonides's Book of the Commandments ? Towards a New Understanding of Maimonides's Approach to Extrascriptural Law
Among Maimonides's many statements about extrascriptural laws in rabbinic literature, none has attracted as much attention as principle 2 in his Book of the Commandments . Modern scholars have largely understood this text to claim that very few of the laws found in rabbinic literature are Sinaitic in origin and of biblical status. Yet, until the twentieth century, principle 2 was primarily read as distinguishing between revealed laws that constit…
Two Themes in Maimonides's Modifications to His Legal Works
The survival of the personal copy of Commentary on the Mishnah by Maimonides (1138-1204), which he revised throughout his life, provides an unparalleled window into the ways he continually reconsidered legal and conceptual questions. This manuscript covers five of the six orders of the Mishnah and contains countless corrections and emendations, the vast majority in the author's own hand. This article argues that Maimonides's intense interest in s…
Almohad-Era Jewish Jurisprudence
Sarah Stroumsa’s 2009 Maimonides in his World spurred much reconsideration of Almohad influence on medieval Jewish thought. Many now accept that Almohad ideology was at least one crucible in which Moses Maimonides’s thought was forged. This paper broadens exploration of Almohad influences to include Maimonides’s understudied contemporary Joseph ben Judah Ibn ʿAqnīn. It focuses on the jurisprudential theories propounded by these two thinkers in or…
Judaism (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Medieval and Classical Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Torah (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)