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Maimonides on Harranians (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity
12 Assyrian Identity
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery
01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



 		Keywords
gods
Harran
stars
Period
12th century CE 		Channel
Jewish philosophers and scholars

Text
Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed 3.29:
… they considered stars as deities, and the sun as the chief deity. They believe that all the seven stars are gods, but the two luminaries are greater than all the rest. They say distinctly that the sun governs the world, both that which is above and that which is below … All the Sabians thus believed in the eternity of the Universe, the heavens being, in their opinion, God.

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Maimonides, Guide for the Perplexed 3.29

Bibliography

Green 1992, 101Green, Tamara. The City of the Moon God, Religious Traditions of Harran. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 114. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1992.

Amar Annus


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