Gersonides' afterlife : studies on the reception of Levi ben Gerson's philosophical, Halakhic and scientific oeuvre in the 14th through 20th centuries / edited by Ofer Elior, Gad Freudenthal, David Wirmer ; with a liminary note by Reimund Leicht.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elior, Ofer, editor.

Freudenthal, Gad, editor.

Wirmer, David, editor.

Leicht, Reimund, writer of preface.

Université de Genève, host institution.

Series:

Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. v. 62.

Studies in Jewish history and culture. Officina philosophica hebraica ; v. 2.

Studies in Jewish history and culture, 1568-5004 ; volume 62. Officina philosophica hebraica ; volume 2.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344--Influence--Congresses.

Levi ben Gershom.

Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344--Congresses.

Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344.

Jewish philosophy--To 1500--Congresses.

Jewish philosophy.

Jewish philosophy--Congresses.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 673 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Studies on the reception of Levi ben Gerson's philosophical, Halakhic and scientific oeuvre in the 14th through 20th centuries

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020.

Summary:

"Gersonides' Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: Gersonides (1288-1344). An outstanding representative of the Hebrew Jewish culture that then flourished in southern France, Gersonides wrote on mathematics, logic, astronomy, astrology, physical science, metaphysics and theology, and commented on almost the entire bible. His strong-minded attempt to integrate these different areas of study into a unitary system of thought was deeply rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and yet innovative in many respects, and thus elicited diverse and often impassionate reactions. For the first time, the twenty-one papers collected here describe Gersonides' impact in all fields of his activity and the reactions from his contemporaries up to present-day religious Zionism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1. The reception of Gersonides' philosophical and Halakhic oeuvre. "Composition, not commentary" : Gersonides' commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry and its afterlife / Charles H. Manekin

The supercommentaries of Gersonides and his students on Averroes's epitomes of the Physics and the Meteorology / Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine

Crescas' relationship to Gersonides / Warren Zev Harvey

From denunciation to appreciation : Gersonides in the eyes of members of the Ibn Shem Ṭov family / Doron Forte

Gersonides and his Sephardic critics / Seymour Feldman

A fifteenth-century reader of Gersonides : Don Isaac Abravanel, providence, astral influences, active intellect, and humanism / Cedric Cohen-Skalli and Oded Horezky

Gersonides' philosophy in fifteenth-century Byzantium : Shabbetai ben Malkiel ha-Kohen's defense of Averroes's theory of material intellect / Ofer Elior Gersonides' reception in the Ashkenazi yradition / Tamás Visi

The Karaite reception of Gersonides / Daniel J. Lasker

Gersonides' Biblical commentaries in a fifteenth-century Slavic translation of the Bible / Moshe Taube

Gersonides' responsa and their reception / Pinchas Roth

Part 2. The reception of Gersonides' astronomical and astrological oeuvre. The lunar cycle of 11,325 Days / José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein

The afterlife of Gersonides' cross-staff and of the poem dedicated to it / Gad Freudenthal

Violas de Rodez' political prognostication for the year 1355 : reaction to the prognostications for 1345-1355? / Hagar Kahana-Smilansky

Part 3. Printing and Reading Histories. The reception history of Gersonides' writings, according to their early printing history (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) / Zeev Gries^^^ory of material intellect / Ofer Elior Gersonides Hebraicus atque Latinus : some remarks on Levi ben Gershom's works and the reading and book-collecting cultures of the Renaissance / Michela Andreatta

Censoring/"improving" Gersonides : the case of the Toʻalot / Menachem Kellner

Part 4. Gersonides' oeuvre in nineteenth-century Germany. Rabbi Abraham Nager and Ludwig Philippson

the revisor and sponsor of the Leipzig edition of Gersonides' Milḥamot Ha-Shem (1866) : the Wissenschaft des Judentums and Orientalistik in nineteenth-century Germany (a case study) / Gad Freudenthal

The rediscovery of Gersonides as a religious philosopher by the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1860-1890) / George Y. Kohler

Benzion Kellermann's German translation of Gersonides' Milḥamot ha-Shem (1914-1916) : the history of a scholarly failure / Torsten Lattki

Part 5. Late repercussions of Gersonides' oeuvre. Notes on Gersonides' place in religious-Zionist thought / Dov Schwartz.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held 17-19 February 2014 at the University of Geneva.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Gersonides' afterlife

ISBN:

9789004425279

9004425276

OCLC:

1145901095