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Jewish Culture and Contexts. First printing. Volume, measuring approximately 6.75" x 9.5", is bound in light gray cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 236 pages."The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh centuries, the heads of the Jewish yeshivot of Iraq sought precedence in custom to adapt Jewish law to the new economic and social reality.In "Maimonides and the Merchants", Mark R. Cohen reveals the extent of even further pragmatic revisions to the halakha, or body of Jewish law, introduced by Moses Maimonides in his Mishneh Torah, the comprehensive legal code he compiled in the late twelfth century. While Maimonides insisted that he was merely restating already…
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- Title Maimonides and the Merchants: Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
- Author Mark R. Cohen
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 248
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
- Date 2017-07-05
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9780812249149 / 0812249143
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 3.05 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Maimonides, Moses, Partnership (Jewish law) - History - To 1500
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2016055419
- Dewey Decimal Code 296.367
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