Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. / 2019 / / Yoav Meyrav.

• Funder: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• Author: Meyrav, Yoav; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
• HerausgeberIn: Meyrav, Yoav,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies ; 2019
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 306 p.)

The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of visiting fellows, staff, and affiliates of the Maimonides Centre of Advanced Studies—Jewish Scepticism, Universität Hamburg. Its main section contains scholarly articles about Judaism and scepticism, both individually and together, among different thinkers and within different areas of study. Each volume of the Yearbook also includes a section with an overview of the activities and events conducted at MCAS during a given academic year, as well as a report on its library.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Editorial -- 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) -- Activities and Events -- Report on the Library of Jewish Scepticism