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

ISBN-13: 9780415782104 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 288 str.

Gregg Stern;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

'Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture' is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition.

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.