Norma y legitimación del conocimiento rabínico: ángeles, hombres y vulgares burros

Jesús de Prado Plumed

doi:10.3989/arbor.2008.i731.193

Authors

Jesús de Prado Plumed Investigador Predoctoral. École Pratique des Hautes Études

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2008.i731.193

Keywords:

Declive de las generaciones, jurisprudencia rabínica derecho judío, fuentes rabínicas, Halajá

Abstract

This article presents an examination of two major working ideas of rabbinical Judaism: a) humankind lives through an endless spiritual decline since the days of our pious forefathers (yĕridat ha-dorot); b) in matters of legal adjudication, the opinion of active legal decisors (posĕqim) is the one and only to be followed, even if divergent from earlier authoritative sources (hilxeta kĕ-vatraˀe). My examination of the nature and present currency of both ideas will be led by the poignant halakhic problem of the agunot (“chained women”). Rather than a thorough epistemology of both ideas, I will favour an argument which highlights the paradox of the link between authority and scholarship in rabbinical Judaism.

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Jesús de Prado Plumed, Investigador Predoctoral. École Pratique des Hautes Études

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