List of contributors
Preface
Chronology
Note on transliteration
Glossary
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 mediveal Jewish philoxophy
JOEL L. RAEMER
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 Isacc Israeli
SARAH PESSIN
6 Judah Halevi and his use of philosophy in the kuzari
BARRY S. KOGAN
7 Maimonides and medieval jewisth Aristotelianism
DANIEL H. FRANK
8 maimonides and the sciences
TZVI LANGERMANN
9 Medieval Jewish political thought
MENACHEM LORBERAUM
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' religio9us philoxophy
PART III THE LATER YEARS
GHARLES H. MANEKIN
15 The impact of scholasticism upon jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
T.M.RUDAVSKY
16 Jewish philosophy and the jewish-Christain philosophical dialogue in fifteenth-cetury Spain
ARI ACKERMAN
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Guide to further reading in English
Index