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Authors: Daniel H. Frank (Editor), Oliver Leaman
ISBN-13: 9780521652070, ISBN-10: 0521652073
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Daniel H. Frank

Daniel H. Frank is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Judaic Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. Among recent publications are History of Jewish Philosophy (edited with Oliver Leaman, 1997), The Jewish Philosophy Reader (edited with Oliver Leaman and Charles Manekin, 2000), and revised editions of two Jewish philosophical classics, Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (1995) and Saadya Gaon's Book of Doctrines and Beliefs (2002).

Oliver Leaman is Professor of Philosophy and Zantker Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Kentucky. He is the author of An Introduction to Classical Islamic Philosophy (2001), Evil and Suffering in Jewish Philosophy (1995), and is editor of Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy ( 2001) and Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film (2001). He is co-editor, with Glennys Howarth, of Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (2001).

Book Synopsis

An introduction to Jewish philosophical thought during the Middle Ages.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Preface
Chronology
Note on transliteration
Glossary
1Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy3
2The biblical and rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy16
3The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy38
4Saadya and Jewish kalam71
5Jewish Neoplatonism: Being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli91
6Judah Halevi and his use of philosophy in the Kuzari111
7Maimonides and medieval Jewish Aristotelianism136
8Maimonides and the sciences157
9Medieval Jewish political thought176
10Judaism and Sufism201
11Philosophy and kabbalah: 1200-1600218
12Arabic into Hebrew: The Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought258
13Philosophy in southern France: Controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought281
14Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religious philosophy304
15The impact of Scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries345
16Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth-century Spain371
17Hasdai Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism391
18The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy414
Guide to further reading in English446
Index464

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