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.

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 62
• TeilnehmendeR: Freudenthal, Gad,; Wirmer, David,; Elior, Ofer,; Université de Genève,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2020.
• Année de publication: 2020
• Langue: English
• Collection: Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; 62.
• Description matérielle: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Includes index.

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, as...

Table of Contents

• Subseries Editor’s Liminary Note: Gersonides’ Afterlife —Towards a Collaborative Working Program
• Editors’ Preface
• List of Figures and Tables
• Part 1 The Reception of Gersonides’ Philosophical and Halakhic Oeuvre
• 1 “Composition, Not Commentary”: Gersonides’ Commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry and Its Afterlife
• Charles H. Manekin
• 2 The Supercommentaries of Gersonides and His Students on Averroes’s Epitomes of the Physics and the Meteorology
• Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine
• 3 Crescas’ Relationship to Gersonides
• Warren Zev Harvey
• 4 From Denunciation to Appreciation: Gersonides in the Eyes of Members of the Ibn Shem Ṭov Family
• Doron Forte
• 5 Gersonides and His Sephardic Critics
• Seymour Feldman
• 6 A Fifteenth-Century Reader of Gersonides: Don Isaac Abravanel, Providence, Astral Influences, Active Intellect, and Humanism
• Cedric Cohen Skalli and Oded Horezky
• 7 Gersonides’ Philosophy in Fifteenth-Century Byzantium: Shabbetai ben Malkiel ha-Kohen’s Defense of Averroes’s Theory of Material Intellect
• Ofer Elior
• 8 Gersonides’ Reception in the Ashkenazi Tradition
• Tamás Visi
• 9 The Karaite Reception of Gersonides
• Daniel J. Lasker
• 10 Gersonides’ Biblical Commentaries in a Fifteenth-Century Slavic Translation of the Bible
• Moshe Taube
• 11 Gersonides’ Responsa and Their Reception
• Pinchas Roth
• Part 2 The Reception of Gersonides’ Astronomical and Astrological Oeuvre
• 12 The Lunar Cycle of 11,325 Days
• José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein
• 13 The Afterlife of Gersonides’ Cross-Staff and of the Poem Dedicated to It
• Gad Freudenthal
• 14 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
• 15 The Reception History of Gersonides’ Writings, according to Their Early Printing History (Fifteenth–Sixteenth Centuries)
• Zeev Gries
• 16 Gersonides Hebraicus atque Latinus: Some Remarks on Levi ben Gershom’s Works and the Reading and Book-Collecting Cultures of the Renaissance
• Michela Andreatta
• 17 Censoring/“Improving” Gersonides: The Case of the Toʿalot
• Menachem Kellner
• Part 4 Gersonides’ Oeuvre in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• 18 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
• 19 The Rediscovery of Gersonides as a Religious Philosopher by the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1860–1890)
• George Y. Kohler
• 20 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
• 21 Notes on Gersonides’ Place in Religious-Zionist Thought
• Dov Schwartz
• Index.