Title: Studies in medieval Jewish history and literature /
Authors: Twersky, Isadore; Harris, Jay Michael, 1956-
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 1979
Subjects: Judaism History; Jewish philosophy.; Philosophy, Medieval.; Jews Intellectual life.
Contents: Social structure and intellectual creativity in medieval jewish communities (eighth to twelfth centuries) / Avraham Grossman -- The development and diffusion of unanimous agreement in medieval Ashkenas / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Traces of Moseh ibn 'Ezra's 'Arugat ha-Bosem in the writings of the early Qabbalists of the Spanish school / Samuel ibn Tibbon's Commentary on Ecclesiastes and the philosopher's prooemium / James T. Robinson -- Abraham Abulafia and Unio mystica / Moshe Idel -- Between East and West : Rabbi Asher b. Yehi'el and his son Rabbi Ya'aqov / Israel Ta-Shema -- Liberal democratic themes in Nissim of Girona / Warren Zev Harvey -- Isaac Abarbanel's intellectual achievement and literary legacy in modern scholarship : a retrospective and opportunity / Philosophy and the law in the writings of R. Yom Tov Lipman Heller / Joseph M. Davis -- Contact and theseverance of contact between the rabbis of Turkey and Europe in the seventeenth century / Jacob Barnai -- The Kuzary rainaissance in Jewish philosophy (the thought of the school of Kuzari commentators in early fifteenth-century provence) / Dov Schwarts.