Philosophy and rabbinic culture
Subtitle: Jewish interpretation and controversy in medieval Languedoc
By: Gregg Stern.
Series: Routledge Jewish studies series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415774420; 9780203884195
Subjects: Philosophy, Jewish -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- To 1500; Philosophy, Medieval; Judaism -- France -- History -- To 1500; Jewish learning and scholarship -- France -- Languedoc -- History -- To 1500; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Jewish learning and thought in Languedoc; title: 1250-1300: implications of original philosophic work and the diffusion of philosophic learning in Languedoc; title: 1250-1300: Jewish contacts with Christian intellectuals and Jewish thought regarding Christianity; title: Meiri's transformation of Talmud study: philosophic spirituality in a halakhic key; title: 1300: on the eve of the controversy; title: 1300-1304: knowledge and authority in dispute; title: 1304-1306: the controversy peaks; title: The effects of the expulsion: Jewish philosophic culture in Roussillon and Provence.