Contents -- Preface -- I. Two Paradigms of the Nexus Between Philosophy and Mysticism: Judah Halevi and Moses Maimonides* -- II. Spinoza's Method(s) of Biblical Interpretation Reconsidered* -- III. Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysical Defense of Religious Pluralism* -- IV. Aesthetics and the Infinite: Moses Mendelssohn on the Poetics of Biblical Prophecy -- V. Counter-Enlightenment in a Jewish Key Anti-Maimonideanism in Nineteenth-Century Orthodoxy -- VI. Publishing the Moses Mendelssohn Jubileumsausgabe in Weimar and Nazi Germany
VII. Leo Strauss on Lessing's Spinozism*VIII. Between Judaism and German Enlightenment: Recent Work on Moses Mendelssohn in English* -- IX. Sincere Irony: A Review of William Egginton's In Defense of Religious Moderation* -- Permissions -- Index
Summary
This volume explores Jewish approaches to the faith-reason debate through detailed analyses of Jewish thinkers from the 12th to the 20th centuries
