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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. Officina Philosophica Hebraica Volume 2
 
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ISBN13:9789004425279
ISBN10:9004425276
Binding:Hardback
No. of pages:674 pages
Size:235x155 mm
Weight:1146 g
Language:English
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Gersonides? Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: the philosopher-scientist Levi ben Gershom (1288?1344). The papers collected here describe his multifarious impact from the fourteenth century to present-day religious Zionism.

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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.

"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. (...) Highly recommended for all scholarly academic collections."
- David B Levy, Lander College for Women, in Association of Jewish Libraries - New and Reviews December 2021 | January 2022, Volume II, No.6
Table of Contents:
Subseries Editor&&&x2019;s Liminary Note: Gersonides&&&x2019; Afterlife&&&x2014;Towards a Collaborative Working Program

Editors&&&x2019; Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Part 1 The Reception of Gersonides&&&x2019; Philosophical and Halakhic Oeuvre





1 &&&x201C;Composition, Not Commentary&&&x201D;: Gersonides&&&x2019; Commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry and Its Afterlife

 Charles&&&x00A0;H. Manekin



2 The Supercommentaries of Gersonides and His Students on Averroes&&&x2019;s Epitomes of the Physics and the Meteorology

 Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine



3 Crescas&&&x2019; Relationship to Gersonides

 Warren Zev Harvey



4 From Denunciation to Appreciation: Gersonides in the Eyes of Members of the Ibn Shem &&&x1E6C;ov Family

 Doron Forte



5 Gersonides and His Sephardic Critics

 Seymour Feldman



6 A Fifteenth
-Century Reader of Gersonides: Don Isaac Abravanel, Providence, Astral Influences, Active Intellect, and Humanism

 Cedric Cohen&&&x00A0;Skalli and Oded Horezky



7 Gersonides&&&x2019; Philosophy in Fifteenth
-Century Byzantium: Shabbetai ben Malkiel ha
-Kohen&&&x2019;s Defense of Averroes&&&x2019;s Theory of Material Intellect

 Ofer Elior



8 Gersonides&&&x2019; Reception in the Ashkenazi Tradition

 Tam&&&x00E1;s Visi



9 The Karaite Reception of Gersonides

 Daniel&&&x00A0;J. Lasker



10 Gersonides&&&x2019; Biblical Commentaries in a Fifteenth
-Century Slavic Translation of the Bible

 Moshe Taube



11 Gersonides&&&x2019; Responsa and Their Reception

 Pinchas Roth



Part 2 The Reception of Gersonides&&&x2019; Astronomical and Astrological Oeuvre





12 The Lunar Cycle of 11,325 Days

 Jos&&&x00E9; Chab&&&x00E1;s and Bernard&&&x00A0;R. Goldstein



13 The Afterlife of Gersonides&&&x2019; Cross
-Staff and of the Poem Dedicated to It

 Gad Freudenthal



14 Violas de Rodez&&&x2019; Political Prognostication for the Year 1355: Reaction to the Prognostications for 1345&&&x2013;1355?

 Hagar Kahana
-Smilansky



Part 3 Printing and Reading Histories





15 The Reception History of Gersonides&&&x2019; Writings, according to Their Early Printing History (Fifteenth&&&x2013;Sixteenth Centuries)

 Zeev Gries



16 Gersonides Hebraicus atque Latinus: Some Remarks on Levi ben Gershom&&&x2019;s Works and the Reading and Book
-Collecting Cultures of the Renaissance

 Michela Andreatta



17 Censoring/&&&x201C;Improving&&&x201D; Gersonides: The Case of the To&&&x02BF;alot

 Menachem Kellner



Part 4 Gersonides&&&x2019; Oeuvre in Nineteenth
-Century Germany





18 Rabbi Abraham Nager and Ludwig Philippson&&&x2014;The Revisor and Sponsor of the Leipzig Edition of Gersonides&&&x2019; Mil&&&x1E25;amot Ha
-Shem (1866): The Wissenschaft des Judentums and Orientalistik in Nineteenth
-Century Germany (a Case Study)

 Gad Freudenthal



19 The Rediscovery of Gersonides as a Religious Philosopher by the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1860&&&x2013;1890)

 George&&&x00A0;Y. Kohler



20 Benzion Kellermann&&&x2019;s German Translation of Gersonides&&&x2019; Mil&&&x1E25;amot ha
-Shem (1914&&&x2013;1916): The History of a Scholarly Failure

 Torsten Lattki



Part 5 Late Repercussions of Gersonides&&&x2019; Oeuvre





21 Notes on Gersonides&&&x2019; Place in Religious
-Zionist Thought

 Dov Schwartz



Index