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This book surveys Hebrew manuscripts of Aristotelian philosophy and logic. It presents a translation and revision of part of Moritz Steinschneider's monumental Die Hebraeischen Ubersetzungen des Mittelalters und die Juden als Dolmetscher (The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Interpreters). This resource was first published in 1893. It remains to this day the authoritative account of the transmission and development of Arabic and Latin, and, by way of those languages, Greek culture to medieval and renaissance Jews.The editors have updated Steinschneider's bibliography. They have also judiciously revised some of his scholarly judgments. In addition, the volume provides an exhaustive listing of pertinent Hebrew manuscripts and their whereabouts. The section on logic, including texts hitherto unknown, represents the latest research in the history of medieval logic in Hebrew. This publication is the second in a series of volumes that translates, updates, and, where necessary, revises parts of Steinschneider's bio-bibliographical classic work on Hebrew manuscripts of philosophical encyclopedias, manuals, and logical writings. Historians of medieval culture and philosophy, and also scholars of the transmission of classical culture to Muslims, Christians, and Jews, will find this volume indispensable.

This book updates and translates a great work of 19th century Jewish scholarship. It presents an authoritative account of the transmission and development of Arabic and Latin, and, by way of those languages, Greek culture to Medieval and Renaissance era Jews.

Moritz Steinschneider. The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters

Proceedings of the Bar-Ilan University Conference

Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is an original systematic thinker and representative of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism.

A number of Jewish philosophers active in Spain and Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Abraham Bibago, Baruch Ibn Ya'ish, Abraham Shalom, Eli Habillo, Judah Messer Leon) wrote Hebrew commentaries and questions on Aristotle.

This book is a collection of papers given at the International Conference "Levinas in Jerusalem" held at the Hebrew University in May 2002. It gives an overview of the most fecund areas of research in Levinas scholarship.

This book offers an examination of Levinas's philosophy of religion in light of his ethics and anthropology. The focus of interpretation is the hermeneutics of kenosis: the subject's ability to be open towards the other to the point where man can be seen as a place of God.

Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is an original systematic thinker and representative of the Marburg School of Critical Idealism.

This book offers an examination of Levinas's philosophy of religion in light of his ethics and anthropology. The focus of interpretation is the hermeneutics of kenosis: the subject's ability to be open towards the other to the point where man can be seen as a place of God.

Purpose Moses Maimonides¿ Guide of the Perplexed is pervaded by a p- manent tension regarding the possibility and extent of the knowledge of God by a created intellect, which lies at the roots of the 13th century controversy over Maimonides¿ writings. While Maimonides asserts that ¿its purpose is to give indications to a religious man for whom the validity of our Law has become 1 established in his soul and has become actual in his belief,¿ one of its early opponents, Meshullam ben Solomon, writes referring to him: ¿Those who deny the proper attributes of God speak out 2 until faith has been drained out of man.¿ He will instead claim to be ¿determined to know the God of my fathers and my 3 thoughts are continuously of Him¿. Meshullam understands that despite Maimonides¿ interest in preserving his readers¿ faith, he leads them to skepticism by denying the possibility of any positive knowledge of the essence of God.

This study follows the reception of Maimonidean thought, specifically the Guide for the Perplexed, from reformers of the early 1800s to the development of a sophisticated reform-theology in the writings of Hermann Cohen more then a hundred years later.

More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. This book offers a study of prophecy in the thought of seven of the leading medieval Jewish philosophers: R Saadiah Gaon, R Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Gersonides, R Hasdai Crescas, R Joseph Albo, and Baruch Spinoza.

Or is it His way to show the world the nature of true belief?The book starts with an introduction to familiarize readers with the many and varied manifestations of the Aqedah theme in Jewish culture and with the developments of medieval Jewish Bible exegesis in general.

The articles presented in this book include studies in Rabbinics, Classical Hebrew linguistics, and early Hebrew-Greek glossary. Written by leading scholars in the field, they offer a fine example of the wealth and variety of the present day academic study of Hebrew, Judaism, and Jewish culture.

The articles presented in this book include studies in Rabbinics, Classical Hebrew linguistics, and early Hebrew-Greek glossary. Written by leading scholars in the field, they offer a fine example of the wealth and variety of the present day academic study of Hebrew, Judaism, and Jewish culture.

This book is a collection of papers given at the International Conference "Levinas in Jerusalem" held at the Hebrew University in May 2002. It gives an overview of the most fecund areas of research in Levinas scholarship.

More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How can a human being attain the Word of God? This book offers a study of prophecy in the thought of medieval Jewish philosophers such as R Saadiah Gaon, R Judah Halevi, Gersonides, and others.

A number of Jewish philosophers active in Spain and Italy in the second half of the 15th century (Abraham Bibago, Baruch Ibn Ya'ish, Abraham Shalom, Eli Habillo, Judah Messer Leon) wrote Hebrew commentaries and questions on Aristotle.

A study of Thomas Aquinas' "Quaestio de Attributis." It shows that "The Quaestio" contains Aquinas' final answer to the dispute on the divine attributes. It examines his interpretation of Maimonides' position on the issue of the knowledge of God by analysing this and other texts related to it chronologically and doctrinally.