TY - BOOK AU - Albert D. Friedberg AB - Rabbinic tradition has it that 613 commandments were given to Moses on Mount Sinai, but it does not specify those included in the enumeration. Maimonides methodically and artfully crafts a list of 613 commandments in a work that serves as a prolegemenon to the Mishneh Torah, his monumental code of law. This book explores the surprising way Maimonides put this tradition to use and his possible rationale for using such a tradition. It also explores many of the philosophical and ethical ideas animating the composition of such a list. In the book's second half, Friedberg examines the manner by which Maimonides formulated positive commandments in the Mishneh Torah, leading him to suggest new dimensions in Maimonides' legal theory. ID - OAPEN ID: 19625 KW - code of law KW - Commandments L1 - http://static1.squarespace.com/static/54132b01e4b0f5bf7ad3ed92/t/57cda3a0440243f4dee0bef3/1473094563451/Crafting+the+613+Commandments.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/44208 PB - Academic Studies Press PY - 2014 SN - 9781618111678 SN - 9781618113870 TI - Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandmentsnull ER -