Jewish Intellectual History in the Middle Ages

by Joseph Dan

Overview

Volume three of this exciting series focuses on Jewish intellectual history in the Middle Ages. The editors and contributors have made available for the first time in English translation seminal articles culled from the wealth of scholarly studies written in Hebrew by experts of the past generation and current researchers breaking new ground in the field. The Binah series provides a valuable resource for teaching this rich period in Jewish civilization on the undergraduate level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275947781
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	10/26/1994
Series:	Studies in Jewish History, Culture, and Thought , #3
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.46(d)
Lexile:	1500L (what's this?)

About the Author

JOSEPH DAN is Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Cultural and Religious Traditions in Ninth-Century French Jewry by Robert Bonfil
Kabbalistic and Gnostic Dualism by Joseph Dan
The Beginning of Science Among the Jews of Spain by José María Millás Vallicrosa
Political Philosophy and Halakhah in Maimonides by Warren Zev Harvey
The "First Created Being" in Early Kabbalah: Philosophical and Ismailian Sources by Sara O. Heller Wilensky
A German-Jewish Autobiography of the Fourteenth Century by Israel J. Yuval
Rashi and the World Around Him by Yitzhak F. Baer
Menahem Meiri's Attitude Toward Gentiles—Apologetics or Worldview? by Gerald J. Blidstein
The Image of God as the Source of Man's Evil, According to the Maharal of Prague by Yoram Jacobson
Kabbalistic Ethical Literature in Sixteenth-Century Safed by Mordechai Pachter
The Influence of Spanish-Jewish Culture on the Jews of Ashkenaz and Poland in the Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries by Jacob Elbaum