Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy

af Charles H. T. (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Lesch

Theocratic movements are on the rise. But what does it actually mean for God to rule? This Element offers one answer by recovering the theocratic project of medieval Judaism's most important thinker, Moses Maimonides. Theocracy is often thought to quash human agency, evoking an overpowering deity and clerical domination. Yet by reconsidering Maimonides' debt to the Islamic philosopher al-F¿r¿b¿, and challenging Leo Strauss' influential reading, the author argues that among Maimonides' aims was t... (Læs mere)