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Wisdoms little sister [electronic resource] : studies in medieval and Renaissance Jewish political thought / Abraham Melamed.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Melamed, Avraham.
- Series:
- Emunot.
- Emunot : Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism and politics--History--To 1500.
- Judaism and politics.
- Jews--Politics and government--To 1500.
- Jews.
- Jewish philosophy--History--To 1500.
- Jewish philosophy.
- Philosophy, Ancient--Influence.
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Judaism and state.
- Jewish diaspora.
- Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204--Political and social views.
- Maimonides, Moses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (430 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The study of Jewish political philosophy is a recently established field in the study of Jewish philosophy. While in older histories of Jewish philosophy there is hardly any discussion of this topic, recent editors of such books have found it useful to add chapters on it. Following the pioneering efforts of Leo Strauss, Ralph Lerner and Daniel Elazar, among others, political philosophy has gained its proper place alongside ethics and metaphysics in the study of the history of Jewish philosophy. This volume is another manifestation of this welcome development. Consisting of selected English-language papers the author published over the last thirty years, it concentrates on the Medieval and Renaissance periods, from Sa'adiah Gaon in the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth. These were the formative periods in the development of Jewish political philosophy, when Jewish scholars versed in the canonical Jewish sources (biblical and rabbinic) encountered Greek political philosophy, as transmitted by Muslim philosophers such as Alfarabi, Ibn Bajja and Averroes, and adapted it to their Jewish terms of reference. The outcome of this effort was Jewish political philosophy.
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The framework
- pt. 2. Studies : the Middle Ages
- pt. 3. Studies : the Renaissance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-61811-089-6
- OCLC:
- 797832930
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