Jerusalem, A Holy Place? Maimonides' Stance. In Maimonides' philosophy, the relationship to the holy is devoid of any material aspect. Therefore, the notion of a holy place, or a holy city, although entrenched in Judaism, seems problematical within the Maimonidean framework. Maimonides rejects frames of thought in which some places rather than others are intrinsically holy. Rather, for Maimonides the holiness of a thing is directly related to the observance of the divine commandments. Specifically, the Temple in Jerusalem is holy by virtue of its having been constructed on divine injunction. Jerusalem has been chosen as the site for the construction of the Temple because at this spot some important moments of communication between God and...
International audienceAccording to the literary sources, was the pagan character of the baths in the...
Between memory and imagination, the image of Jerusalem in the Western mind is deeply informed by the...
Comme juif né et éduqué dans le Maghreb et ayant passé le plus clair de sa vie en Égypte, Moïse Maim...
Jerusalem is a mystical-religious site and a. historical-sacred one with regards to the three major ...
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The «Holy Congregation of Jerusalem » , mentioned in the Qohelet Rabba Midrash, was an Essenian comm...
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L’étude porte sur la ville de Jérusalem située en Palestine, qui cristallise depuis des siècles les ...
Sacred spaces belong to the inventory of the inhabitated “spatiality” of the city. Among the archite...
Emile Durkheim notes that characteristic of all religions is the division between the holy and the p...
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J. Joosten : The Conceptual Framework of the Holiness Code. The main themes of the Holiness Code (L...
International audienceAccording to the literary sources, was the pagan character of the baths in the...
Between memory and imagination, the image of Jerusalem in the Western mind is deeply informed by the...
Comme juif né et éduqué dans le Maghreb et ayant passé le plus clair de sa vie en Égypte, Moïse Maim...
Jerusalem is a mystical-religious site and a. historical-sacred one with regards to the three major ...
International audienceThe Old City of Jerusalem is often largely summed up in a Middle Ages picture ...
The «Holy Congregation of Jerusalem » , mentioned in the Qohelet Rabba Midrash, was an Essenian comm...
Le statut légal des quartiers Est et Ouest de Jérusalem a fait l'objet d'opinions différentes de div...
Le Mont du Temple, ou, sous son nom musulman, le Haram al-Sharif, à Jérusalem, offre l’exemple rare ...
Place is a central phenomenon in Israel. Contemporary Israeli reality is a consequence of the moveme...
L’étude porte sur la ville de Jérusalem située en Palestine, qui cristallise depuis des siècles les ...
Sacred spaces belong to the inventory of the inhabitated “spatiality” of the city. Among the archite...
Emile Durkheim notes that characteristic of all religions is the division between the holy and the p...
« Vetus Israel »: The Jews in Hierosolymitan literature in the Byzantine period The transformation...
J. Joosten : The Conceptual Framework of the Holiness Code. The main themes of the Holiness Code (L...
International audienceAccording to the literary sources, was the pagan character of the baths in the...
Between memory and imagination, the image of Jerusalem in the Western mind is deeply informed by the...
Comme juif né et éduqué dans le Maghreb et ayant passé le plus clair de sa vie en Égypte, Moïse Maim...