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MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND ITS LITERARY FORMS NEW JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND THOUGHT Zachary J. Braiterman M EDIE VA L J E W ISH NEW JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND THOUGHT P HILOSOPH Y Zachary J. Braiterman A N D IT S L ITER A RY FOR M S Edited by Aaron W. Hughes and James T. Robinson INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS This book is a publication of Indiana University Press Office of Scholarly Publishing Herman B Wells Library 350 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu © 2019 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. Manufactured in the United States of America Names: Hughes, Aaron W., [date] editor. Title: Medieval Jewish philosophy and its literary forms / edited by Aaron W. Hughes and James T. Robinson. Description: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2019. | Series: New Jewish philosophy and thought | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018049717 (print) | LCCN 2019014651 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253042552 (e-book) | ISBN 9780253042514 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780253042521 (pb : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Jewish philosophy—History. | Philosophy, Medieval. Classification: LCC B755 (ebook) | LCC B755 .M435 2019 (print) | DDC 181/.06—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018049717 1 2 3 4 5 24 23 22 21 20 19 To the memory of our beloved colleague, Kalman P. Bland (1942–2017) CONTENTS Introduction / Aaron W. Hughes and James T. Robinson 1 1 Animal Fables and Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Kalman P. Bland, z’l 8 2 Biblical Commentaries as a Genre of Jewish Philosophical Writing / Raphael Dascalu 40 3 Commentaries on The Guide of the Perplexed: A Brief Literary History / Igor H. de Souza 79 4 Philosophical Commentary and Supercommentary: The Hebrew Aristotelian Commentaries of the Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries / Yehuda Halper 104 5 The Author’s Haqdamah as a Literary Form in Jewish Thought / Steven Harvey 133 6 Does Judaism Make Sense? Early Medieval Kalam as Literature / Gyongyi Hegedus 161 7 Dialogues / Aaron W. Hughes 185 8 Poetry / Aaron W. Hughes 213 9 Poetic Summaries of Scientific and Philosophical Works / Maud Kozodoy 238 10 The Philosophical Epistle as a Genre of Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Charles H. Manekin 264 viii | Contents 11 The Sermon in Late Medieval Jewish Thought as Method for Popularizing Philosophy / Chaim Meir Neria 288 12 Lexicons and Lexicography in Medieval Jewish Philosophy / James T. Robinson 313 13 Theological Summas in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Shira Weiss 337 Index 359 MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND ITS LITERARY FORMS
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