The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy

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Author: Daniel H. Frank

ISBN-10: 0521655749

ISBN-13: 9780521655743

Category: History - Judaism

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An introduction to Jewish philosophical thought during the Middle Ages.

List of contributorsPrefaceChronologyNote on transliterationGlossary1Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy32The biblical and rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy163The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy384Saadya and Jewish kalam715Jewish Neoplatonism: Being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli916Judah Halevi and his use of philosophy in the Kuzari1117Maimonides and medieval Jewish Aristotelianism1368Maimonides and the sciences1579Medieval Jewish political thought17610Judaism and Sufism20111Philosophy and kabbalah: 1200-160021812Arabic into Hebrew: The Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought25813Philosophy in southern France: Controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought28114Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religious philosophy30415The impact of Scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries34516Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth-century Spain37117Hasdai Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism39118The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy414Guide to further reading in English446Index464