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The Cambridge companion to medieval Jewish philosophy / edited by Daniel H. Frank and Oliver Leaman.

Contributor(s): Frank, Daniel H, 1950- | Leaman, Oliver, 1950-.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003Description: xxiv, 483 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0521655749 (pbk.).Subject(s): Philosophy, Jewish | Philosophy, Medieval | Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789DDC classification: 181.06
Contents:
Part I: Background and Context: 1. Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy Oliver Leaman - 2. The biblical and Rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy David Shatz - 3. The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy Joel L. Kraemer -- Part II. Ideas, Works and Writers: 4. Saadya and Jewish Kalam Sarah Stroumsa - 5. Jewish neoplatonism: being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli Sarah Pessin - 6. Judah Halevi and the philosophy of the Kuzari Barry S. Kogan - 7. Maimonides and the medieval Jewish Aristotelianism Daniel H. Frank - 8. Maimonides and the sciences Tzvi Langermann - 9. Medieval Jewish political thought Menachem Lorberbaum - 10. Judaism and Sufism Paul B. Fenton - 11. Philosophy and Kabbalah: 1200-1600 Hava Tirosh-Samuelson - 12. Arabic into Hebrew: the Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought Steven Harvey - 13. Philosophy in southern France: controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought Gregg Stern - 14. Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religious philosophy Charles H. Manekin -- Part III. The Later Years: 15. The impact of scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries T. M. Rudavsky - 16. Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth century Spain Ari Ackerman - 17. Hasdi Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism James T. Robinson - 18. The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy Seymour Feldman.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 446-463) and index.

Part I: Background and Context: 1. Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy Oliver Leaman - 2. The biblical and Rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy David Shatz - 3. The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy Joel L. Kraemer -- Part II. Ideas, Works and Writers: 4. Saadya and Jewish Kalam Sarah Stroumsa - 5. Jewish neoplatonism: being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli Sarah Pessin - 6. Judah Halevi and the philosophy of the Kuzari Barry S. Kogan - 7. Maimonides and the medieval Jewish Aristotelianism Daniel H. Frank - 8. Maimonides and the sciences Tzvi Langermann - 9. Medieval Jewish political thought Menachem Lorberbaum - 10. Judaism and Sufism Paul B. Fenton - 11. Philosophy and Kabbalah: 1200-1600 Hava Tirosh-Samuelson - 12. Arabic into Hebrew: the Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought Steven Harvey - 13. Philosophy in southern France: controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought Gregg Stern - 14. Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religious philosophy Charles H. Manekin -- Part III. The Later Years: 15. The impact of scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries T. M. Rudavsky - 16. Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth century Spain Ari Ackerman - 17. Hasdi Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism James T. Robinson - 18. The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy Seymour Feldman.