Jewish Intellectual History in the Middle Ages

List 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

About the author

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

Product details

• Assisted by: Joseph Dan (Editor), Dan Joseph (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.1994
• EAN: 9780275947781
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94778-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Weight: 369 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; History of Ideas, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, General & world history, CE period up to c 1500, Jewish Studies, Social and cultural history, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, General and world history, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Religion: Comparative