Hasdai Crescas On Codification Cosmology And Creation

Author : Ari Ackerman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004518657
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation written by Ari Ackerman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work focuses on the conception of God of the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It demonstrates that Crescas’ God is infinitely creative and good and explores the parallel that Crescas implicitly draws between God as creator and legislator.

Author : Kalman Dubov
Publisher : Kalman Dubov
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Iberian Peninsula written by Kalman Dubov and published by Kalman Dubov. This book was released on 2023-04-24 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish history of the Iberian Peninsula begins during Roman times, followed by the Visigoths, a Germanic presence that was initially favorable towards the Jews. In 589 CE, their king Recarred converted to Roman Catholicism resulting in the Edicts of Toledo, a series of laws designed to create many difficulties for Jews who refused to convert to Christianity. Visigoth rule ended in 711 when Muslims from North Africa invaded. Tariq ibn Ziyad, a North African general, for whom Gibraltar is named (Jebel Tariq) found Visigoth armies weak and soon reached the Pyrenees and beyond. Muslim rule on Iberia lasted from 711 to 1492, as Christian armies reconquered and gained southern territories. During Islamic control of the peninsula, a conviviality (convivencia) existed amongst the three Abrahamic religions resulting in a vast seminal growth with translations of ancient Greek and Roman texts and advances in every area of human thought. The scholarship that grew from this period later fueled the Renaissance, benefiting modern scholarship. But in 1492, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile promulgated the Alhambra Decree, expelling all Jews from the kingdom. This was followed by the establishment of the Spanish Inquisition, an institution that tortured and murdered thousands of men, women, and children, even as young as twelve years old. The Inquisition extended to the New World. In Mexico City as in Lima Peru, victims of the Inquisition faced merciless tribunals and faced the same fate as in Spain. The Inquisition was finally abolished in 1968. Transitioning to 2015, Spain began offering dual nationality to Jewish descendants of the expelled. I analyze the requirements to do so, noting its extensive detail, even demanding support of the Spanish constitution and culture as well as tests in Spanish with proof of marriage in the Jewish-Castilian tradition. This book offers a tableau of the harsh, zealous, and intolerant past to an effort by Spain to amend that violent historic record by offering an open hand to Jews. I leave the reasoning why Spain is doing so to the pessimist and cynic or to the optimist and hopeful.

Author : T.M. Rudavsky
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791493253
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Matters written by T.M. Rudavsky and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of time and cosmology to Western thought, surprisingly little attention has been paid to these issues in histories of Jewish philosophy. Focusing on how medieval philosophers constructed a philosophical theology that was sensitive to religious constraints and yet also incorporated compelling elements of science and philosophy, T. M. Rudavsky traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in the writings of Ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Gersonides, Crescas, Spinoza, and others.

Author : Natan Slifkin
Publisher : Zoo Torah
ISBN 13 : 1933143150
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Challenge of Creation written by Natan Slifkin and published by Zoo Torah. This book was released on 2006 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Challenge of Creation is a completely revised and vastly expanded edition of The Science Of Torah. That work was widely hailed as the best book of its kind for its honesty and thoroughness of approach. The Challenge of Creation builds upon its approach, covering more issues and in greater depth. Carefully, methodically, and eschewing sensationalistic or dogmatic claims in favor of reasoned analysis, it shows how some of the greatest Jewish thinkers explained Judaism and Genesis in a way that complements modern science rather than conflicts with it. The Challenge of Creation is an invaluable resource for anyone grappling with conflicts between science and religion. It is a profound work that is sure to become a classic

Author : Nathan Jacob Robertson
Publisher : Pneuma Springs Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1905809271
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The First Six Days written by Nathan Jacob Robertson and published by Pneuma Springs Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The First Six Days' presents a comprehensive overview of the current scientific theory of the beginnings of the universe and life. The author shows that scientific ideas far from contradicting the Torah are actually mirrored in its words.

Author : Norbert Max Samuelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780891309918
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creation and the End of Days written by Norbert Max Samuelson and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Jeremy Silver
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maimonidean Criticism and the Maimonidean Controversy, 1180-1240 written by Daniel Jeremy Silver and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Silver s Maimonidean Criticism constitutes a landmark in the historiography of Maimonideanism in general and of the controversy of the 1230s in particular. Brill has thus brought this important book back into print for students wishing an introduction to this debate.

Author : David Gillis
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1789627796
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Maimonides' Mishneh Torah written by David Gillis and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Gillis’s highly original study of Maimonides’ Mishneh torah demonstrates that its form reflects a belief that observance of the divine commandments of the Torah brings the individual and society into line with the cosmic order. He shows that the Mishneh torah is intended to be an object of contemplation as well as a prescription for action, with the study of it in itself bringing the reader closer to knowledge of God.

Author : William David Davies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521219297
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age written by William David Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.

Author : Geoffrey Wigoder
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Judaism written by Geoffrey Wigoder and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before have so many distinguished authorities in Jewish scholarship assembled with the express purpose of gathering together the world of Jewish learning in one landmark book. 250 black-and-white, 48 color illustrations.