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Part II - Medieval

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2020

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The Cambridge Companion to Jewish Theology , pp. 103 - 182
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Selected Further Reading

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Selected Further Reading

Berman, L. V. “Maimonides, the Disciple of Alfarabi.” Israel Oriental Studies 4 (1974): 154–78.Google Scholar
Bland, K. “Moses and the Law According to Maimonides.” In Mystics, Philosophers and Politicians: Essays in Jewish Intellectual History in Honor of Alexander Altmann, 49–66. Edited by Reinharz, J., and Swetschinski, D.. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1982.Google Scholar
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Davidson, H. Maimonides the Rationalist. Oxford: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011.Google Scholar
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Fleischacker, S. “Making Sense of the Revelation at Sinai: Revisiting Maimonides’ Eighth Principle of Faith,” https://thetorah.com/making-sense-of-the-revelation-at-sinai/ (March 2014).Google Scholar
Frank, D. “Anger as a Vice: A Maimonidean Critique of Aristotle’s Ethics.” History of Philosophy Quarterly 7 (1990): 269–81.Google Scholar
Frank, D. “The Duty to Philosophize: Socrates and Maimonides.” Judaism 42.3 (1993): 289–97.Google Scholar
Ivry, A. Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed: A Philosophical Commentary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Kreisel, H. Prophecy: The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 2001.Google Scholar
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Stern, J. The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013.Google Scholar
Stern, J. Problems and Parables of Law: Maimonides and Nahmanides on Reasons for the Commandments (Ta‘amei Ha-Mitzvot). Albany: SUNY Press, 1998.Google Scholar
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Selected Further Reading

Afterman, Adam. “And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism. Leiden: Brill, 2016.Google Scholar
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Hallamish, Moshe. An Introduction to the Kabbalah. Translated by Ruth Bar-Ilan and Ora Wiskind-Elper. Albany: SUNY Press, 1999.Google Scholar
Idel, Moshe. Enchanted Chains: Techniques and Rituals in Jewish Mysticism. Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah: New Perspectives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988.Google Scholar
Scholem, Gershom. On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism. Translated by Ralph Manheim. New York: Schocken Books, 1965.Google Scholar
Scholem, Gershom. On the Mystical Shape of the Godhead: Basic Concepts in the Kabbalah. Translated by Joachim Neugroschel. New York: Schocken Books, 1991.Google Scholar
Tishby, Isaiah. The Wisdom of the Zohar. Translated by David Goldstein. Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1989.Google Scholar
Weiss, Tzahi. “Sefer Yeṣirah” and Its Contexts: Other Jewish Voices. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018Google Scholar
Wolfson, Elliot R. Abraham Abulafia – Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy, and Theurgy. Los Angeles: Cherub Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Wolfson, Elliot R. Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Wolfson, Elliot R. “Negative Theology and Positive Assertion in the Early Kabbalah.” Da‘at 32–33 (1994): v–xxii.Google Scholar
Wolfson, Elliot R. Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.Google Scholar

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  • Edited by Steven Kepnes, Colgate University, New York
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