{"product_id":"after-revelation-marc-herman-9781512827781","title":"After Revelation: The Rabbinic Past in the Medieval Islamic World","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReveals how medieval Jews developed religious law through contact with their Muslim neighbors\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e is the first study to integrate Jewish legal thought in the medieval Islamic world into its larger environment. Here, Marc D. Herman demonstrates that Jews were fully conversant in their contemporaries' ideas about revelation, law, and legal interpretation. Bookended by the two luminaries of medieval Judaism--Saadia Gaon and Moses Maimonides--\u003ci\u003eAfter Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e is a comprehensive analysis of the legal theory that medieval Jews produced in Islamic lands, mostly in Arabic, and reveals previously unrecognized commonalities between Jewish and Islamic constructions of religious law. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHerman tackles one of the central doctrines of post-biblical Judaism: that God had supplemented the written Hebrew Bible with an Oral Torah, a claim that remains central to Judaism to this day. Following this idea from Baghdad, to Kairouan, to Cordoba, and then to Cairo, he shows that the Oral Torah took many new forms in the medieval Islamic world. The variegated and fluid presentations of the Oral Torah, Herman argues, were inexorably embedded in society-wide discourses that blithely crossed religious borders. He proposes a highly regional perspective on Jewish history in place of the closed communities so often imagined in the histories of Jews and Muslims, one that centers contacts with Muslims as much as continuities with earlier Jewish communities. He emphasizes, too, that medieval Judaism is unimaginable without Jewish interactions with Muslims. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eAfter Revelation\u003c\/i\u003e makes plain that medieval Judaism took the shapes that it did largely because of forces far outside of itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marc Herman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1512827789\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781512827781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Pennsylvania Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Marc Herman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46670584316159,"sku":"9781512827781","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-revelation-marc-herman-9781512827781","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}