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Miracles for the Sake of the Master of Reason Hillel. Ben Samuel of Verona's Legendary Account of the Maimonidean Controversy (2013)

Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 21
Pages: 579--600

Publication Date: 2013
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Mittelalterliche Legenden von Philosophen und Gelehrten / The Medieval Legends of Philosophers and Scholars”
Language: English

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Philosophy Science and religion Jews Biographies 13th century Medieval 12th century 14th century Maimonides ben Samuel, Hillel

There is nothing surprising in the creation of popular legends about a sage like the Jewish philosopher, physician and jurist Moses Maimonides (1135--1204). A more surprising phenomenon is the existence of legendary accounts about Maimonides, which were created by Jewish intellectuals -- his `rationalistic' defenders in the course of the Maimonidean controversies,which haunted the Jewish communities in the 13th and early 14th centuries. Hillel ben Samuel of Verona's (ca. 1120--1295) interpretation of the events, which is found in one of his famous letters to Maestro Gaio, is generally dismissed by modern scholarship as utterly unreliable as a historical source, but it appears in a new light if interpreted not as a historical forgery but a conscious attempt to depict Maimonides as a divinely legitimized authority elevated above mundane disputes.

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