Gersonides' Afterlife - Studies on the Reception of Levi Ben Gerson's Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th Through 20th Centuries. Officina Philosophica Hebraica Volume 2

Gersonides' Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: the philosopher-scientist Levi ben Gershom (1288-1344). The papers collected here describe his multifarious impact from the fourteenth century to present-day religious Zionism.

About the author

Ofer Elior, Ph.D. (2011), Ben-Gurion University, is Research Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at Ben-Gurion University. He has published a monograph, critical editions and many articles on medieval Jewish philosophy, including a critical edition of Gersonides' The Wars of the Lord, Treatises I-IV (Tel Aviv, 2018).
Gad Freudenthal, Ph.D. (1981), Université de Paris I, is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris. He has written extensively on the reception of science and philosophy in Jewish cultures, and edited numerous volumes including Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures (Cambridge, 2011).
David Wirmer, Ph.D. (2010), University of Bonn, is Professor of Arabic and Hebrew Philosophy at the University of Cologne. He has published monographs and articles on Arabic natural philosophy and epistemology, including Vom Denken der Natur zur Natur des Denkens (Berlin, 2014).

Product details

• Assisted by: Ofer Elior (Editor), Gad Freudenthal (Editor), David Wirmer (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2020
• EAN: 9789004425279
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42527-9
• No. of pages: 692
• Weight: 1146 g
• Series: Studies in Jewish History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day