TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedberg,Albert D.
TI  - Crafting the 613 Commandments: Maimonides on the Enumeration, Classification, and Formulation of the Scriptural Commandments 
SN  - 9781618118486
PB  - Academic Studies Press
KW  - Religion / Biblical Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Religion / Antiquities & Archaeology
KW  - Religion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/9d8253db-01a3-4d7b-8c52-7564f563746a
ER  -