books by Jose Faur     books:     Jose Faur      The Horizontal Society, Vol. I (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah) Jose Faur Academic Studies Press, 2008 The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serve as a contrast. This work is in the Hebrew rhetorical tradition of melisa. The main text in five sections--The God of Israel, The Books of Israel, The Governance of Israel, The Memory of Israel, and ...             Homo Mysticus: A Guide to Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed Jose Faur Syracuse University Press, 1999 Un destello repentino I can describe Homo Mysticus in three words: un destello repentino. This means in Spanish, a sudden flash. Yet it is a flash that one will always remember. When one is trying to understand something, after going in rounds and rounds about one thing, thought, idea, ...             In the Shadow of History: Jews and Conversos at the Dawn of Modernity Jose Faur State University of New York Press, 1992 The Maimonidean tradition in its full glory, revealed! In studying the history of the Jews of Spain, Historians have performed a glaring dis-service by being ignorant of the two traditions thriving in Spain. In Southern Spain was the Andalusian tradition of Maimonides, representing the traditions of the Geonim and going ...             Golden Doves With Silver Dots: Semiotics and Textuality in Rabbinic Tradition (Jewish Literature and Culture) Jose Faur Indiana University Press, 1986 A Beacon in the midst When Jacob Neusner compared the achievment of Jose Faur's Golden Doves with Silver Dots to Judah ha-Nasi's Mishnah (compiler of Jewish Formulas) and R. Moshe ben Maimon's Mishneh Torah (codifier of Jewish Law)he was certainly not making a hiperbole. Though I am not an ...             The Horizontal Society, Vol. II (Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah) Jose Faur Academic Studies Press, 2008 The Horizontal Society is an exposition of rabbinic thought as exemplified by Maimonides. The thought streams of Greece, Rome, and Christendom serve as a contrast. This work is in the Hebrew rhetorical tradition of melisa. The main text in five sections--The God of Israel, The Books of Israel, The Governance of Israel, The Memory of Israel, and ...          literature The Shack The Kite Runner Water for Elephants: A Novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7) A Thousand Splendid Suns search for books horizontal, literature, maimonides, perplexed, philosophy, textuality      toavi.com    web we recommend Un destello repentino randomly chosen book: Changes in understory vegetation of a ponderosa pine forest in northern ...