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Maimonides on the divine authorship of the lawIn Charles Harry Manekin & Daniel Davies (eds.), Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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1In the great libraries of Europe and the United States, hidden in fading manuscripts on forgotten shelves, lie the works of medieval Hebrew logic. From the end of the twelfth century through the Renaissance, Jews wrote and translated commentaries and original compositions in Aristotelian logic. One can say without exaggeration that wherever Jews studied philosophy - Spain, France, Northern Africa, Germany, Palestine - they began their studies with logic. Yet with few exceptions, the manuscripts …Read more
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3Comments on Professor Kreisel’s PaperIn Raphael Jospe & Dov Schwartz (eds.), Jewish philosophy: perspectives and retrospectives, Academic Studies Press. 2012.
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Interpreting Maimonides: Critical Essays (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 1900.Moses Maimonides was arguably the single most important Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages, with an impact on the later Jewish tradition that was unparalleled by any of his contemporaries. In this volume of new essays, world-leading scholars address themes relevant to his philosophical outlook, including his relationship with his Islamicate surroundings and the impact of his work on subsequent Jewish and Christian writings, as well as his reception in twentieth-century scholarship. The essays als…Read more
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37Maimonides on Divine Knowledge—Moses of Narbonne’s Averroist ReadingAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (1): 51-74. 2002.In various writings Maimonides claims that God’s knowledge encompasses sublunar things, including human affairs, that we are incapable of understanding the nature of this knowledge, and that the term “knowing” is equivocal when said of God and of humans. In the fourteenth century these claims were given widely divergent interpretations. According to Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides, 1288–1344), Maimonides was compelled by religious considerations to maintain that God knows sublunar particulars in al…Read more
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13The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Heritage: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives ed. by Richard C. Taylor and Irfan A. Omar (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 53 (3): 544-546. 2015.
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20The Matter and Form of Maimonides’s Guide by Josef SternJournal of the History of Philosophy 52 (2): 373-375. 2014.
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The Logic of Gersonides: An Analysis of Selected Doctrines, with a Partial Edition and Translation of "the Book of the Correct Syllogism"Dissertation, Columbia University. 1984.This thesis investigates for the first time the logical writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, R. Levi ben Gershom . Gersonides wrote a super-commentary on Averroes' Middle Commentary on the Organon, a commentary on two of Averroes' logical questions, and an independent treatise, The Book of the Correct Syllogism. To say that these writings have been completely neglected would not be quite accurate. Parts of the supercommentary were translated into Latin in the sixteenth century and pri…Read more
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1On MaimonidesCengage Learning. 2005.ON MAIMONIDES, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributi…Read more
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13Logic, JewishIn H. Lagerlund (ed.), Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 697--702. 2011.
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54Hebrew philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: an overviewIn Daniel H. Frank & Oliver Leaman (eds.), History of Jewish Philosophy, Routledge. pp. 2--350. 1997.
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13When the Jews Learned Logic from the Pope: Three Medieval Hebrew Translations of the Tractatus of Peter of SpainScience in Context 10 (3): 395-430. 1997.The ArgumentIt is well known that theTractatusof Peter of Spain (later Pope John XXI) was one of the most popular logic textbooks in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Less known is theTractatus'sconsiderable reputation and diffusion among the Jews, as evidenced by five translations, two commentaries, and what appears to be anabbreviatio— if not of theTractatusitself, then of a similar work. The present article attempts to understand the phenomenon of theTractatus'spopularity and offers an a…Read more
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23The Jewish philosophy reader (edited book)Routledge. 2000.The Jewish Philosophy Reader is the first comprehensive anthology of classic writings on Jewish philosophy from the Bible to postmodernism. The Reader is clearly divided into four separate parts: Foundations and First Principles, Medieval and Renaissance Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Thought, and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy. Each part is clearly introduced by the editors. The readings featured are representative writings of each era listed above and are from the following major thinkers: A…Read more
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25Some aspects of the assertoric syllogism in medieval hebrew logicHistory and Philosophy of Logic 17 (1-2): 49-71. 1996.This paper introduces the reader to the medieval Hebrew tradition of logic by considering its treatment of Aristotelian syllogistic. Starting in the thirteenth century European Jews translated Arabic and Latin texts into Hebrew and produced commentaries and original compendia.Because they stood culturally and geographically at the cross-roads of two great traditions they were influenced by both.This is clearly seen in the development of syllogistic theory, where the Latin tradition ultimately re…Read more
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Possible sources of Maimonides' theological conservatism in his later writingsIn Jay Michael Harris (ed.), Maimonides After 800 Years: Essays on Maimonides and His Influence, Harvard University Press. 2007.
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Ambiguities of scriptural exegesis: Joseph ibn Kaspi on God's foreknowledgeIn Charles Harry Manekin & Robert Eisen (eds.), Philosophers and the Jewish Bible, University Press of Maryland. 2008.
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16Philosophers and the Jewish Bible (edited book)University Press of Maryland. 2008.Essays on how Jewish philosophers, both historical and modern, including Philo, Saadia Gaon, Ibn Tibbon, Spinoza, and Maimonides, have interpreted the Bible narrative.
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25Freedom and Moral Responsibility: General and Jewish Perspectives (edited book)University Press of Maryland. 1997.Presents five new perspectives on the free will problem, and six interpretations of what Jewish thinkers of the past had to say about the problem. Topics include the concept of freedom that exists independently of a sense of self, arguments against the principle of alternative possibilities, the denial of free will in Hasidic thought, notions of choice held by Medieval Jewish and Islamic thinkers, and Maimonides' concepts of freedom and the sense of shame. Distributed by CDL Press. Annotation co…Read more
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28Medieval Jewish philosophical writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2007.Medieval Jewish intellectuals living in Muslim and Christian lands were strongly concerned to recover what they regarded as a ‘lost’ Jewish philosophical tradition. As part of this project they transmitted and produced many philosophical and scientific works and commentaries, as well as philosophical commentary on scripture, in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, the principal literary languages of medieval Jewry. This volume presents new or revised translations of seven prominent medieval Jewish rational…Read more
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Moses MaimonidesIn Graham Robert Oppy & Nick Trakakis (eds.), Medieval Philosophy of Religion: The History of Western Philosophy of Religion, Volume 2, Oxford University Press. pp. 3--137. 2009.
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Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2007.Medieval Jewish intellectuals living in Muslim and Christian lands were strongly concerned to recover what they regarded as a 'lost' Jewish philosophical tradition. As part of this project they transmitted and produced many philosophical and scientific works and commentaries, as well as philosophical commentary on scripture, in Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew, the principal literary languages of medieval Jewry. This volume presents translations of seven prominent medieval Jewish rationalists: Saadia Ga…Read more
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22Die Intellektlehre des Levi ben Gerson in ihrer Beziehung zur christlichen Scholastik (review)Speculum 69 (2): 535-537. 1994.
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10Medieval iewish philosophy in arabicIn John Marenbon (ed.), The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Philosophy, Oxford University Press. pp. 130. 2012.
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Conservative Tendencies in Gersonides' Religious PhilosophyIn Daniel H. Frank & Oliver Leaman (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 304. 2003.
Charles Manekin
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