Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought.

• Superior document: Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Series ; v.4
• Author: Haliva, Racheli.
• TeilnehmendeR: Meyrav, Yoav.; Davies, Daniel.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (466 pages)

The present volume explores how and why Averroes, a Muslim philosopher and jurist, became one of the most important figures in the history of Jewish philosophy.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Notes on Contributors -- Part 1 What Is Jewish Averroism? -- 1 Was al-Ġazālī an Avicennist? Some Provocative Reflections on Jewish Averroism -- 2 How a Rehabilitated Notion of Latin Averroism Could Help in Understanding Jewish Averroism -- Part 2 The Maimonides/Averroes Complex -- 3 Is Maimonides's Biblical Exegesis Averroistic? -- 4 Averroes and Ğābir ibn Aflaḥ among the Jews: New Interpretations for Joseph ben Judah ibn Simon's Allegorical Correspondence with Maimonides -- 5 The Garden of Eden and the Scope of Human Knowledge: Maimonides, Falaquera, and Nissim of Marseille -- 6 The Role of Averroes's Tahāfut in Narboni's Commentary on the Guide -- Part 3 Averroes in Jewish Religious Discourse -- 7 Averroism, the Jewish-Christian Debate, and Mass Conversions in Iberia -- 8 Double Truth in the Writings of Medieval Jewish Averroists: An Esoteric Way of Appealing to Both Sceptics and Non-sceptics -- 9 Averroes's Influence upon Theological Responses to Scepticism in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy -- Part 4 Jewish Authors Doing Philosophy with (and about) Averroes -- 10 Love and Hate May Lead Astray: Moses Halevi's Rejection of Averroes -- 11 Averroism in Judah ha-Cohen's Midraš ha-ḥokhmah? -- 12 Falaquera the Averroist -- 13 The Necessary Existent, Simplicity, and Incorporeality: An Anti-Avicennian-Averroist Approach -- 14 Gersonides and Kaspi on the Uncertainty of the Future and the Practical Intellect -- 15 Rabbi Moses ben Judah (Rambi) as an Averroist -- 16 Crescas's Attitude toward Averroes -- 17 Matter and Elements: Al-Ġazālī and Averroes as a Source of Isaac Abravanel's "The Forms of the Elements" -- Part 5 Averroes in Hebrew and from Hebrew -- 18 Choking on Water, the Stratification of Society, and the Death of Socrates in the Hebrew Averroes.

19 Ṭodros Ṭodrosi's accessus ad auctorem: A Hebrew "Aristotelian Prologue" to Averroes's Middle Commentaries on Rhetoric and Poetics -- 20 Jacob Mantino and the Alleged Second Latin Translation of Averroes's Long Commentary on On the Soul 3.5 and 3.36 -- Index.