Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Aviezer Ravitzky -- Preface / A. Ravitzky -- Abbreviations / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 1. On the Study of Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 2. Peace: Historical Versus Utopian Models in Jewish Thought / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 3. Political Philosophy: Nissim of Gerona Versus Isaac Abrabanel / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 4. “To the Utmost Human Capacity”: Maimonides on the Days of the Messiah / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 5. The God of the Philosophers and the God of the Kabbalists: A Controversy in Fifteenth Century Crete / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 6. The Anthropological Theory of Miracles in Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 7. Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Esoteric Character of the Guide of the Perplexed / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 8. The Secrets of Maimonides: Between the Thirteenth and the Twentieth Centuries / Aviezer Ravitzky -- 9. Hebrew Quotations from the Lost Arabic Recension of Parva Naturalia / Aviezer Ravitzky -- Source References / Aviezer Ravitzky -- Index of Names / Aviezer Ravitzky.

A collection of nine essays by one of the leading scholars in medieval Jewish Philosophy. The volume consists of two parts. Part I, entitled “Philosophy and History”, includes essays on the study of medieval Jewish Philosophy, on the notion of Peace, on the political philosophy of Nissim of Gerona and Isaac Abrabanel, and on Maimonides’ views on Messianism. In part II, “Philosophy and Faith”, the subjects dealt with are: ‘The God of the Philosophers and the God of the Kabbalists’, the notion of Miracle in medieval Jewish Philosophy, the esoteric character of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, and a lost Arabic recension of Aristotle’s Parva Naturalia. Professor Aviezer Ravitzky is Chairman of the Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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