| Description |
1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Note on Sources -- 1. Introduction: Life and Works -- Life -- Works -- Philosophical Environment -- Motives and Methods -- 2. The Story of Creation -- Gersonides' Cosmological Conundrums -- The World Is Not Eternal: It Was Created -- The World Is Indestructible -- Creation Ex Nihilo Is False -- Philosophical Cosmology and Biblical Exegesis -- 3. God and his Attributes -- How Can the Existence of God Be Proved? -- How Can We Speak about God? -- 4. Divine Omniscience |
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Rabbi Akiva's Dilemma -- Gersonides' Solution to Rabbi Akiva's Dilemma -- 5. Divine Providence -- The Case for Individual Providence -- Why Do the Innocent Suffer? -- The People of Israel and Divine Providence -- 6. Divine Omnipotence -- 'Is Anything Impossible for the Lord?' -- Gersonides' Theory of Miracles -- 7. Prophecy -- What Does Philosophy Have To Do with Prophecy? -- Gersonides' Theory of Prophecy -- Moses, the 'Super-Prophet' -- Are Prophets Infallible? -- 8. Humanity and its Destiny -- Philosophical and Religious Background -- Gersonides' Theory of the Intellect |
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The Immortality of the Intellect -- Gersonides' Critique of Immortality as Conjunction with the Agent Intellect -- 9. The Torah -- Do We Need the Torah? -- How Should We Read the Bible? -- The Commandments -- Is the Torah Immutable? -- 10. Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Works by Gersonides -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
A pioneering assessment of the significance for Jewish thought of the philosopher Gersonides' attempt to forge a synthesis between the secular sciences and Judaism |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344.
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Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344 |
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Providence and government of God -- Judaism.
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Faith and reason -- Judaism.
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Jewish philosophy.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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Faith and reason -- Judaism
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Jewish philosophy
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Philosophy, Medieval
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Providence and government of God -- Judaism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1789624800 |
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9781789624809 |
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