1st Edition

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture Jewish Interpretation and Controversy in Medieval Languedoc

By Gregg Stern Copyright 2009
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Philosophy and Rabbinic Culture is a study of the great, and curiously underappreciated, engagement of a Medieval European Jewish community with the philosophic tradition. This lucid description of the Languedocian Jewish community's multigenerational cultivation of - and acculturation to - scientific and philosophic teachings into Judaism fulfils a major desideratum in Jewish cultural... Read more

1. Jewish Learning and Thought in Languedoc  2. 1250–1300: Implications of Original Philosophic Work and the Diffusion of Philosophic Learning in Languedoc  3. 1250–1300: Jewish Contacts with Christian Intellectuals and Jewish Thought Regarding Christianity  4. Meiri’s Transformation of Talmud Study: Philosophic Spirituality in a Halakhic Key  5. 1300: On the Eve of the Controversy  6. 1300–1304: Knowledge and Authority in Dispute  7. 1304–1306: The Controversy Peaks  8. The Effects of the Expulsion: Jewish Philosophic Culture in Roussillon and Provence

Biography

Gregg Stern holds a PhD in medieval Jewish studies from Harvard University. He has received numerous academic grants, awards and fellowships, and has conducted research and taught at colleges and universities in Israel, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom.