"Without Any Doubt"

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

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Book

Pages, Illustrations:

viii, 352 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Sara Klein-Braslavy, Ph.D (1972), Sorbonne - Paris IV, is professor emerita of Jewish Philosophy at Tel Aviv University. She is the author of four books on Maimonides’ biblical exegesis and of numerous articles on Jewish medieval philosophy.

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Everyone interested in medieval Jewish philosophy and more specifically in Gersonides—his thought, methods of inquiry and writing, use of dialectic, supercommentaries on Averroes on Aristotle, and biblical exegesis.

Introduction: “Without any Doubt”
The Opinions that Produce the Aporias in the Wars of the Lord
The Solutions of the Aporias in the Wars of the Lord
Dialectic in Gersonides’ Commentary on Proverbs
The Alexandrian Prologue Paradigm in Gersonides’ Writings
The Introductions to the Bible Commentaries
Gersonides as Commentator on Averroes
Determinism, Contingency, Free Choice, and Foreknowledge in Gersonides
Gersonides on the Mode of Communicating Knowledge of the Future to the Dreamer and Clairvoyant

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