Abraham Melamed

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Wisdom's Little Sister: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Political ThoughtHardcover, 1 February 2012

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Part of Series
Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Print Length
430 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Date Published
1 Feb 2012
ISBN-10
1936235323
ISBN-13
9781936235322

Description

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.

Product Details

Author:
Abraham Melamed
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 February 2012
Dimensions:
23.39 x 15.6 x 2.39 cm
ISBN-10:
1936235323
ISBN-13:
9781936235322
Language:
English
Location:
Boston, MA
Pages:
430
Weight:
775.64 gm

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