Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture : Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc

ISBN-13: 9780415774420 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str.

Gregg Stern

Opis

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture: The Medieval Jewish Community in Southern France is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of southern French Jewry's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to - scientific and philosophic teachings fulfills a major desideratum in Jewish cultural history.

Spis treści

1. Jewish Learning and Thought in Languedoc  2. 1250–1300: Implications of Original Philosophic Work and the Diffusion of Philosophic Learning in Languedoc  3. 1250–1300: Jewish Contacts with Christian Intellectuals and Jewish Thought Regarding Christianity  4. Meiri’s Transformation of Talmud Study: Philosophic Spirituality in a Halakhic Key  5. 1300: On the Eve of the Controversy  6. 1300–1304: Knowledge and Authority in Dispute  7. 1304–1306: The Controversy Peaks  8. The Effects of the Expulsion: Jewish Philosophic Culture in Roussillon and Provence

O autorze

Gregg Stern holds a PhD in medieval Jewish studies from Harvard University. He has received numerous academic grants, awards and fellowships, and has conducted research and taught at colleges and universities in Israel, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.