How Long to Read Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority

How Long Does it Take to Read Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 34 minutes to read Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority by Menachem Kellner

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Description

Moses Maimonides, medieval Judaism's leading legist and philosopher, and a figure of central importance for contemporary Jewish self-understanding, held a view of Judaism which maintained the authority of the Talmudic rabbis in matters of Jewish law while allowing for free and open inquiry in matters of science and philosophy. Maimonides affirmed, not the superiority of the "moderns" (the scholars of his and subsequent generations) over the "ancients" (the Tannaim and Amoraim, the Rabbis of the Mishnah and Talmud) but the inherent equality of the two. The equality presented here is not equality of halakhic authority, but equality of ability, of essential human characteristics. In order to substantiate these claims, Kellner explores the related idea that Maimonides does not adopt the notion of "the decline of the generations," according to which each succeeding generation, or each succeeding epoch, is in some significant and religiously relevant sense inferior to preceding generations or epochs.

How long is Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority?

Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority by Menachem Kellner is 149 pages long, and a total of 38,591 words.

This makes it 50% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 30 minutes to read Maimonides on the "Decline of the Generations" and the Nature of Rabbinic Authority aloud.

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