Before Maimonides
A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew
Published on 26. October 2023
Book
Hardback
159 pages
978-90-04-52951-9 (ISBN)
Description
All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of "Jewish philosophy". But just what were the contours of philosophical-scientific inquiry that Maimonides replaced? A fairly large array of diverse texts have been studied, but no comprehensive picture has yet emerged. The newly discovered Hebrew dialogue published here has points of contact of various depth with most of the major works of pre-Maimonidean thought. It shares as well influences from without, especially from the Islamic kalam. The dialogue thus presents, in an engaging literary form, a clear and detailed snapshot of pre-Maimonidean philosophy and science.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-52951-9 (9789004529519)
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Y. Tzvi Langermann, Ph.D. (1979), Harvard, History of Science, is Professor Emeritus of Arabic at Bar Ilan University, He has published extensively on medieval science and philosophy, especially basing his research on unpublished manuscript materials. His most recent book is In and Around Maimonides (Gorgias, 2021).
Content
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Situating Pre-Maimonidean Jewish Philosophy
?1?The Manuscript
?2?The Dialogue between Intellect and Soul
2 Conspectus
3 The Historical-Philosophical Context: Pre-Maimonidean Jewish Thought in the Iberian Peninsula
?1?Contemporaneous Jewish Sources
?2?Pairs of Opposites as a Fundamental Feature of the Created Universe
?3?The Mystical Death Wish
?4?Greek Sources
?5?Islamic Sources: The Kalam
?6?Polemical Targets
?7?Conclusions
4 Transcription, Translation, Innovation
?1?Transcriptions
?2?New Translations Announced by the Dialogue
?3?Din and ?oq
?4?Innovative or Unusual Usages of Hebrew Word Forms
?5?yesh: Issues of Syntax and Meaning
Text and Translation
Bibliography
Indices
1 Introduction: Situating Pre-Maimonidean Jewish Philosophy
?1?The Manuscript
?2?The Dialogue between Intellect and Soul
2 Conspectus
3 The Historical-Philosophical Context: Pre-Maimonidean Jewish Thought in the Iberian Peninsula
?1?Contemporaneous Jewish Sources
?2?Pairs of Opposites as a Fundamental Feature of the Created Universe
?3?The Mystical Death Wish
?4?Greek Sources
?5?Islamic Sources: The Kalam
?6?Polemical Targets
?7?Conclusions
4 Transcription, Translation, Innovation
?1?Transcriptions
?2?New Translations Announced by the Dialogue
?3?Din and ?oq
?4?Innovative or Unusual Usages of Hebrew Word Forms
?5?yesh: Issues of Syntax and Meaning
Text and Translation
Bibliography
Indices