A collection of nine essays by one of the leading scholars in medieval Jewish
Philosophy. The volume consists of two parts. Part I, entitled Philosophy and
History, includes essays on the study of medieval Jewish Philosophy, on the
notion of Peace, on the political philosophy of Nissim of Gerona and Isaac
Abrabanel, and on Maimonides´ views on Messianism. In part II, Philosophy and
Faith, the subjects dealt with are: ´The God of the Philosophers and the God
of the Kabbalists´, the notion of Miracle in medieval Jewish Philosophy, the
esoteric character of Maimonides´ Guide of the Perplexed, and a lost Arabic
recension of Aristotle´s Parva Naturalia. Professor Aviezer Ravitzky is
Chairman of the Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.
