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Sefer Ha-ikkarim

work by Albo

Also known as: “Sefer ha-ʿiqqarim”

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discussed in biography

In Joseph Albo
…classic work of Jewish dogmatics, Sefer ha-ʿiqqarim (1485; “Book of Principles”).
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place in Jewish philosophy

In Judaism: Joseph Albo
…theme of Albo’s magnum opus, Sefer ha-ʿiqqarim (“Book of Principles”), is the investigation of the theory of Jewish religious dogmas. Maimonides, in a nonphilosophical work, set the number of dogmas at 13, whereas Albo, following a doctrine that seems to go back to Averroës, limited the number to three: the…
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