Hasdai Crescas on Codification, Cosmology and Creation : The Infinite God and the Expanding Torah /
This work focuses on the conception of God of the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It demonstrates that Crescas' God is infinitely creative and good and explores the parallel that Crescas implicitly draws between God as creator and legislator, which...
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Leiden ; Boston :
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2022.
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Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy ;
33.
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Call Number: BM520.6
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Concealed Legal Universe of Hasdai Crescas
- 1 The Maimonidean Context for Crescas' Conception of the Infinite and Dynamic Torah
- 1 The Torah as Perfect, Eternal, and Immutable (Guide 2:39)
- 2 The Limitations of the Law (Guide 3:34)
- 3 Maimonides on the Possibility of Legal Change
- 4 Separating Biblical Roots from Rabbinic Branches
- 5 Taking Issue with the Geonim
- 6 Maimonides and the Wholeness Conception of the Torah
- 2 Hasdai Crescas on Codification
- 1 Codification and Human Perfection
- 2 Abraham and the Multiplicity of Commandments
- 3 Crescas, Maimonides, and Anatoli on the Multiplicity of Commandments
- 4 Crescas on the Pragmatic Orientation of Torah Study
- 5 Maimonides and Crescas on Comprehensive Codes
- 6 Methodological Criticism of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah
- 7 Crescas' Criticism and Maimonidean Self-Perception
- 3 The Infinite Torah
- 1 Crescas on the Infinity of the Torah
- 2 Crescas' Students on the Torah's Infinitude
- 3 Sources for the Conception of the Infinitely Expanding Torah
- 4 Crescas on the Immutability of the Torah
- 5 Joseph Albo on the Immutability of the Torah
- 4 Legal Definitions and Taxonomy in Crescas' Halakhic Writings
- 1 The Laws of Passover in Derashat ha-Pesaḥ
- 2 Crescas and the Jewish Codificatory Tradition
- 3 Hasdai Crescas and Samuel b. Hofni Gaon
- 4 Hasdai Crescas and Abraham ibn Ezra
- 5 Hasdai Crescas and Maimonides
- 6 Hasdai Crescas and Gersonides
- 7 The Influence of Philosophy on the Halakhic Deliberations of Hasdai Crescas and Members of His Circle
- 5 Crescas on God, Torah, and Nature
- 1 Crescas' Introduction to Or Hashem
- 2 The Prooemium of Or Hashem
- 6 Hasdai Crescas on the Possibility of Multiple, Simultaneous Worlds
- 1 The Possible Existence of Multiple, Simultaneously Existing Worlds in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
- 2 Crescas' Discussion in Or Hashem 1:2:1
- 3 Place, Space, and the Existence of an Extra-Cosmic Vacuum
- 4 Arguments for the Existence of Multiple, Simultaneous Worlds
- 5 Arguments against the Existence of Multiple, Simultaneous Worlds
- 6 Resolution of the Quaestio
- 7 Maimonides and Gersonides on Creation
- 1 Maimonides on Creation Ex Nihilo
- 2 Maimonides' Refutation of Aristotle's Arguments for Eternity
- 3 Maimonides' Proofs for the Likelihood of Creation
- 4 Maimonides on the End of the World
- 5 Gersonides on Cosmogony
- 6 Gersonides on Time and Infinity
- 7 Gersonides and the Eternal Existence of Matter
- 8 Gersonides on the Incorruptibility of the World
- 9 Comparing Maimonides and Gersonides on Creation
- 8 Creation and Crescas' Infinitely Creative God
- 1 Hasdai Crescas' Response to Maimonides' Proofs for Creation
- 2 Crescas' Alternative Definition of Time
- 3 Crescas' Theory of Eternal Creation
- 4 Crescas on Multiple, Successive Worlds and the Corruptibility of the Universe
- 5 Crescas on the Incorruptibility of the World
- 6 Philosophy Encounters Kabbalah: The Sources of Crescas' Theory of Multiple, Successive Worlds
- Conclusion Maimonides and Crescas on God as Legislator and Creator
- 1 Maimonides on the Parallel between Law and Nature
- 2 Crescas on God as Creator and Legislator
- Bibliography
- Index.