TY - BOOK ID - 33274340 TI - Rewriting Maimonides : Early Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed AU - De Souza, Igor H. AU - Moses ben Solomon AU - Gracian, Zerahiah ben Isaac ben Shealtiel AU - Falaquera, Shem Tov ben Joseph AU - Caspi, Joseph AU - Moses PY - 2018 SN - 3110557657 3110557568 9783110557565 PB - De Gruyter DB - UniCat KW - Jewish philosophy KW - Judaism KW - Philosophy, Medieval. KW - Commentary. KW - Guide of the Perplexed. KW - Kommentar. KW - Maimonides. KW - Middle Ages. KW - Mittelalter. KW - Kommentar KW - Rezeption KW - HISTORY / Jewish. KW - Fortwirken KW - Nachwirkung KW - Nachleben KW - Wirkungsgeschichte KW - Aneignung KW - Auswirkung KW - Fortleben KW - Kommentare KW - Kommentierung KW - Medieval philosophy KW - Scholasticism KW - Maimonides, Moses, KW - Maimonides, Moses, - 1135-1204. - Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33274340 AB - Maimonideanism, the intellectual culture inspired by Maimonides' writings, has received much recent attention. Yet a central aspect of Maimonideanism has been overlooked: the formal reception of the Guide of the Perplexed through commentary. In Rewriting Maimonides, Igor H. De Souza offers a comprehensive analysis of six early philosophical commentaries, written in Italy, Spain, and France, by some of Maimonides' most loyal followers. The early commentaries represent the most creative period of exegesis of the Guide. De Souza's analysis dispels the notion that the tradition of commentary on the Guide is monolithic. Rather, De Souza's study illuminates how each commentator offers distinctive readings. Challenging the hierarchy of text and commentary, Rewriting Maimonides studies commentaries on the Guide as texts in their own right. De Souza approaches the form of commentary as a multifaceted cultural practice. Employing historical, philosophical, and literary methods, this publication fills a lacuna in the history of the Guide through a global perspective on commentary. ER -