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)
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).
An introduction to Jewish philosophical thought during the Middle Ages.
List of contributors | ||
Preface | ||
Chronology | ||
Note on transliteration | ||
Glossary | ||
1 | Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy | 3 |
2 | The biblical and rabbinic background to medieval Jewish philosophy | 16 |
3 | The Islamic context of medieval Jewish philosophy | 38 |
4 | Saadya and Jewish kalam | 71 |
5 | Jewish Neoplatonism: Being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn Gabirol and Isaac Israeli | 91 |
6 | Judah Halevi and his use of philosophy in the Kuzari | 111 |
7 | Maimonides and medieval Jewish Aristotelianism | 136 |
8 | Maimonides and the sciences | 157 |
9 | Medieval Jewish political thought | 176 |
10 | Judaism and Sufism | 201 |
11 | Philosophy and kabbalah: 1200-1600 | 218 |
12 | Arabic into Hebrew: The Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval Jewish thought | 258 |
13 | Philosophy in southern France: Controversy over philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought | 281 |
14 | Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religious philosophy | 304 |
15 | The impact of Scholasticism upon Jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries | 345 |
16 | Jewish philosophy and the Jewish-Christian philosophical dialogue in fifteenth-century Spain | 371 |
17 | Hasdai Crescas and anti-Aristotelianism | 391 |
18 | The end and aftereffects of medieval Jewish philosophy | 414 |
Guide to further reading in English | 446 | |
Index | 464 |