The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity Through the Seventeenth Century »

Steven Nadler is William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy and Max and Frieda Weinstein/Bascom Professor of Jewish Studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is author of Spinoza's Ethics: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2006); Rembrandt's Jews (2003), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind (2002); and Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge University Press, 1999), which won the Koret Jewish Book Award.

T. M. Rudavsky is Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. She is author of Time Matters: Time and Cosmology in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2000). She is editor of Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy: Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Perspectives (1984) and Gender and Judaism: Tradition and Transformation (1995). Until June 2006, she was Director of the OSU Melton Center for Jewish Studies.

This volume surveys the history of Jewish philosophy from antiquity to the early modern period.

Introduction Steven Nadler and T. M. Rudavsky;

Part I. Texts and Contexts:

1. The Greek background Kenneth Seeskin;
2. The Muslim context Sarah Stroumsa;
3. Textual traditions Mauro Zonta;
4. Philosophical interpretations of the Bible Howard Kreisel;
5. Mysticism and philosophy Micah Gottlieb;

Part II. Logic and Language:
6. Proposition and judgment Charles H. Manekin;
7. Reasoning and demonstration Norbert M. Samuelson;
8. Meaning and language Josef Stern;

Part III. Natural Philosophy:
9. Matter, form, and the corporeal world Sarah Pessin;
10. Cosmology: the heavenly bodies Gad Freudenthal;
11. Miracles Ari Ackerman;
12. Time, space, and infinity T. M. Rudavsky;
13. Exhalations and other meteorological themes Resianne Fontaine;

Part IV. Epistemology and Psychology:
14. Belief, knowledge, and certainty Idit Dobbs-Weinstein;
15. Understanding prophecy: four traditions Barry S. Kogan;
16. Intellect and soul James T. Robinson;

Part V. Metaphysics and Philosophical Theology:
17. God's existence and attributes Carlos Fraenkel;
18. Creation and emanation Lenn E. Goodman;
19. Theodicy and providence Steven Nadler;
20. Divine omnipotence, omniscience, and human freedom Seymour Feldman;

Part VI. Practical Philosophy:
21. Virtue and happiness Hava Tirosh-Samuelson;
22. Politics and the state Abraham Melamed;
23. Divine law and human practices Daniel H. Frank.