Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy

Name: Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521655743

ISBN-10: 0521655749

ISBN-13: 9780521655743

Edition: 2003

Authors: Daniel H. Frank, Oliver Leaman

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This companion presents all the major Jewish thinkers of the period, the philosophical and non-philosophical contexts of their thought and the interaction between Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers. It is a comprehensive introduction to a vital period of Jewish intellectual history.

Book details

List price: $52.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/11/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 508
Size: 6.06" wide x 9.02" long x 1.26" tall
Weight: 1.760
Language: English

Daniel H. Frank is Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky.

Oliver Leaman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He has written and edited several books on philosophy.



Preface


Chronology


Glossary



Background and Context



Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy Oliver Leaman



The biblical and Rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy




The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy




Ideas, Works and Writers



Saadya and Jewish Kalam




Jewish neoplatonism: being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon




Judah Halevi and the philosophy of the Kuzari




Maimonides and the medieval Jewish Aristotelianism




Maimonides and the sciences




Medieval Jewish political thought Menachem




Judaism and Sufism




Philosophy and Kabbalah: 1200-1600 Hava




Arabic into Hebrew: the Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought




Philosophy in southern France: controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought




Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religious philosophy




The Later Years



The impact of scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries




Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth century Spain




Hasdi Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism




The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy