Where Books Burn: The Maimonidean Controversy of the 1230s

🎓 The controversy about Rambam's theological stances, halachic method, and legal rulings, which simmered from the time of Raavad and Ramah, exploded in the 1230s with a fierce cross-communal debate.

Body of a letter (beginning: “G-d will castigate you, Satan,” University Library Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Ms. Oct. 99, f. 8v (letter runs from ff. 7r-8r).

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• Part 1: R. Shlomo ben Avraham min ha-Har (of Montpellier) Opens the Controversy in Pro…