Scriptural Injunctivism: Reading Yeshayahu Leibowitz in the Light of Mīmāṃsā Philosophy

This article will present an argument for "scriptural injunctivism"—a position shared by Yeshayahu Leibowiz and the Mīmāṃsā philosophical tradition and according to which fundamental texts of a religious tradition are to be taken primarily as a source of injunctions for ritual action and normative behavior, rather than as metaphysical or ethical knowledge.