{"product_id":"after-revelation-the-rabbinic-past-in-the-medieval-islamic-world-hardback-9781512827781","title":"After Revelation; The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World (Hardback) 9781512827781","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAfter Revelation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarc Herman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512827781\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 5 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 1 map\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Challenging commonly held theological and scholarly positions, \u003ci\u003eAfter Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e's analysis is measured and sophisticated, offering groundbreaking conclusions that are innovative and convincing.\" (Sarah Stroumsa, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReveals how medieval Jews developed religious law through contact with their Muslim neighbors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAfter Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e offers a dynamic new perspective on medieval Jewish legal thought and its integration in the wider Islamic world. Here, Marc D. Herman demonstrates that Jews were fully conversant in their contemporaries' ideas about revelation, law, and legal interpretation. Bookended by the two luminaries of medieval Judaism—Saadia Gaon and Moses Maimonides—\u003ci\u003eAfter Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes the legal theory that medieval Jews produced in Islamic lands, mostly in Arabic, and reveals previously unrecognized commonalities between Jewish and Islamic constructions of religious law.\u003cbr\u003e Herman tackles one of the central doctrines of post-biblical Judaism: that God had supplemented the written Hebrew Bible with an Oral Torah. Tracing this idea from Baghdad to Córdoba to Cairo, he shows that the Oral Torah took many new forms in the medieval Islamic world. \u003ci\u003eAfter Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e makes plain that medieval Judaism took the shapes that it did largely because of contact with Islam.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676687397144,"sku":"9781512827781","price":41.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/after-revelation-the-rabbinic-past-in-the-medieval-islamic-world-hardback-9781512827781","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}