The Cambridge companion to medieval Jewish philosophy /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Frank, Daniel H., 1950-, Leaman, Oliver, 1950-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge companions to philosophy.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy / Oliver Leaman
  • The biblical and Rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy / David Shatz
  • The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy / Joel L. Kraemer
  • Saadya and Jewish Kalam / Sarah Stroumsa
  • Jewish neoplatonism: being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli / Sarah Pessin
  • Judah Halevi and the philosophy of the Kuzari / Barry S. Kogan
  • Maimonides and the medieval Jewish Aristotelianism / Daniel H. Frank
  • Maimonides and the sciences / Tzvi Langermann
  • Medieval Jewish political thought / Menachem Lorberbaum
  • Judaism and Sufism / Paul B. Fenton
  • Philosophy and Kabbalah: 1200-1600 / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
  • Arabic into Hebrew: the Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought / Steven Harvey
  • Philosophy in southern France: controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought / Gregg Stern
  • Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religious philosophy / Charles H. Manekin
  • The impact of scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries / T. M. Rudavsky
  • Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth century Spain / Ari Ackerman
  • Hasdi Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism / James T. Robinson
  • The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy / Seymour Feldman.