Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought

Neoplatonism and Jewish Thought

Albany : State University of New York Press

edited by Lenn E. Goodman

Series: Studies in Neoplatonism ; v. 7.

Editor's introduction : thematizing a tradition / L.E. Goodman -- Philo's conception of the divine nature / David Winston -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol's doctrine of intelligible matter / John M. Dillon -- Parallel structures in the metaphysics of Iamblichus and Ibn Gabirol / C.K. Mathis II -- Ibn Gabirol : the sage among the schoolmen / Bernard McGinn -- From what is one and simple only what is one and simple can come to be / Arthur Hyman -- Maimonides and Neoplatonism : challenge and response / Alfred L. Ivry -- Maimonidean naturalism / L.E. Goodman -- The virtue of faith / Menachem Kellner -- Why not pursue the metaphor of artisan and view God's knowledge as practical? / David B. Burrell -- Matter as creature and matter as the source of evil : Maimonides and Aquinas / Idit Dobbs-Weinstein.
Divine unity in Maimonides, the Tosafists and Me'iri / J. David Bleich -- Platonic themes in Gersonides' doctrine of the active intellect / Seymour Feldman -- Utterance and ineffability in Jewish Neoplatonism / Steven T. Katz -- Self-contraction of the Godhead in Kabbalistic theology / David Novak -- Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance / Moshe Idel -- Love and intellect in Leone Ebreo : the joys and pains of human passion / Hubert Dethier -- Spinoza, Neoplatonic Kabbalist? / Richard Popkin -- The psychodynamics of Neoplatonic ontology / Robert B. McLaren.

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