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Gersonides' afterlife : studies on the reception of Levi ben Gerson's philosophical, Halakhic and scientific oeuvre in the 14th through 20th centuries
Title
Gersonides' afterlife : studies on the reception of Levi ben Gerson's philosophical, Halakhic and scientific oeuvre in the 14th through 20th centuries / edited by Ofer Elior, Gad Freudenthal, David Wirmer ; with a liminary note by Reimund Leicht.
ISBN
9789004425279
9004425276
9789004425286
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.
Physical Description
xvi, 673 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Notes
Papers from a conference held 17-19 February 2014 at the University of Geneva.
Summary
"Gersonides' Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: Gersonides (1288-1344). An outstanding representative of the Hebrew Jewish culture that then flourished in southern France, Gersonides wrote on mathematics, logic, astronomy, astrology, physical science, metaphysics and theology, and commented on almost the entire bible. His strong-minded attempt to integrate these different areas of study into a unitary system of thought was deeply rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and yet innovative in many respects, and thus elicited diverse and often impassionate reactions. For the first time, the twenty-one papers collected here describe Gersonides' impact in all fields of his activity and the reactions from his contemporaries up to present-day religious Zionism"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Studies on the reception of Levi ben Gerson's philosophical, Halakhic and scientific oeuvre in the 14th through 20th centuries
Other formats
Online version: Gersonides' afterlife Leiden : Boston Brill, 2020.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 16, 2021
Series
Studies in Jewish history and culture, volume 62. Officina philosophica hebraica ; volume 2
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Part 1. The reception of Gersonides' philosophical and Halakhic oeuvre. "Composition, not commentary" : Gersonides' commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry and its afterlife / Charles H. Manekin
The supercommentaries of Gersonides and his students on Averroes's epitomes of the Physics and the Meteorology / Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine
Crescas' relationship to Gersonides / Warren Zev Harvey
From denunciation to appreciation : Gersonides in the eyes of members of the Ibn Shem Ṭov family / Doron Forte
Gersonides and his Sephardic critics / Seymour Feldman
A fifteenth-century reader of Gersonides : Don Isaac Abravanel, providence, astral influences, active intellect, and humanism / Cedric Cohen-Skalli and Oded Horezky
Gersonides' philosophy in fifteenth-century Byzantium : Shabbetai ben Malkiel ha-Kohen's defense of Averroes's theory of material intellect / Ofer Elior
Gersonides' reception in the Ashkenazi yradition / Tamás Visi
The Karaite reception of Gersonides / Daniel J. Lasker
Gersonides' Biblical commentaries in a fifteenth-century Slavic translation of the Bible / Moshe Taube
Gersonides' responsa and their reception / Pinchas Roth
Part 2. The reception of Gersonides' astronomical and astrological oeuvre. The lunar cycle of 11,325 Days / José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein
The afterlife of Gersonides' cross-staff and of the poem dedicated to it / Gad Freudenthal
Violas de Rodez' political prognostication for the year 1355 : reaction to the prognostications for 1345-1355? / Hagar Kahana-Smilansky
Part 3. Printing and Reading Histories. The reception history of Gersonides' writings, according to their early printing history (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Zeev Gries
Gersonides Hebraicus atque Latinus : some remarks on Levi ben Gershom's works and the reading and book-collecting cultures of the Renaissance / Michela Andreatta
Censoring/"improving" Gersonides : the case of the Toʻalot / Menachem Kellner
Part 4. Gersonides' oeuvre in nineteenth-century Germany. Rabbi Abraham Nager and Ludwig Philippson
the revisor and sponsor of the Leipzig edition of Gersonides' Milḥamot Ha-Shem (1866) : the Wissenschaft des Judentums and Orientalistik in nineteenth-century Germany (a case study) / Gad Freudenthal
The rediscovery of Gersonides as a religious philosopher by the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1860-1890) / George Y. Kohler
Benzion Kellermann's German translation of Gersonides' Milḥamot ha-Shem (1914-1916) : the history of a scholarly failure / Torsten Lattki
Part 5. Late repercussions of Gersonides' oeuvre. Notes on Gersonides' place in religious-Zionist thought / Dov Schwartz.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Université de Genève, host institution.
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