Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms 1st Edition by Aaron Hughes, James T Robinson ISBN 0253042518 978-0253042514

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ISBN 10: 0253042518 

ISBN 13: 978-0253042514

Author: Aaron Hughes, James T. Robinson 

 Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected work consider Jewish philosophy in the medieval period, when new genres and forms of written expression were flourishing in the wake of renewed interest in ancient philosophy. Many medieval Jewish philosophers were highly accomplished poets, for example, and made conscious efforts to write in a poetic style. This volume turns attention to the connections that medieval Jewish thinkers made between the literary, the exegetical, the philosophical, and the mystical to shed light on the creativity and diversity of medieval thought. As they broaden the scope of what counts as medieval Jewish philosophy, the essays collected here consider questions about how an argument is formed, how text is put into the service of philosophy, and the social and intellectual environment in which philosophical texts were produced.

Table of contents: 

1. Animal fables and medieval Jewish philosophy

2. Biblical commentaries as a genre of Jewish philosophical writing

3. Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed: A brief literary history

4. Philosophical commentary and supercommentary: The Hebrew Aristotelian commentaries of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries

5. The author’s haqdamah as a literary form in Jewish thought

6. Does Judaism make sense? Early medieval kalam as literature

7. Dialogues

8. Poetry

9. Poetic summaries of scientific and philosophical works

10. The philosophical epistle as a genre of medieval Jewish philosophy

11. The sermon in late medieval Jewish thought as a method for popularizing philosophy

12. Lexicons and lexicography in medieval Jewish philosophy

13. Theological summas in late medieval Jewish philosophy

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