Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019.

• Author: Meyrav, Yoav.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin/Boston : : Walter de Gruyter GmbH,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)

The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Editorial -- Part I: Articles -- The Simultaneous Genesis of Monotheism and Scepticism in the Jewish Religion -- Socratic Impulse, Secular Tendency, and Jewish Emancipation: A Comparison between Simone Luzzatto and Moses Mendelssohn -- The Theory of Aḥwāl and Arguments against the Law of Non-Contradiction -- The Causes of Epochē: A Note on Stromateis 8.22.1-4 -- Meister Eckhart Reading Ibn Gabirol's Fons vitae -- Obadiah Sforno and the Individual Human Soul -- Arnold Geulincx: Scepticism and Mental Holism -- Spinoza's Affective Scepticism -- What was Maimon After? His Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science in 1790 -- Does Judaism Have Dogma? Moses Mendelssohn and a Pivotal Nineteenth-Century Debate -- From Scepticism to Tolerance of "the Other": The Example of Yeshayahu Leibowitz -- Jesuit Strategic Scepticism toward Religious Self-Consciousness and Commonalities: Chinese Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Eyes of Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) and His "Translator" Nicolas Trigault (1557-1628) -- Part II: Reports -- Activities and Events -- Report on the Library of Jewish Scepticism.