Study and Knowledge in Jewish Thought Vol I

This volume consists of seventeen articles written by prominent Judaic scholars, presenting a Kaleidoscope of topics and approaches dealing with the rich world of study and knowledge in Jewish thought through the ages. Contributors: David Berger, Alan Brill, Joseph Dan, Jonathan Garb, Marc Geoffoy, Marc Hirshman, Victor Avigdor Hurowitz, Boaz Huss, Martin S. Jaffee, Ephraim Kanarfogel, Sarah Klein-Braslavy, Howard Kreisel, Charles H. Manekin, David Novak, Tamar Ross, Eliezer Segal, Colette Sirat, Shulamit Valler. Howard Kreisel is professor of medieval Jewish philosophy at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and director of the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought. He is the author of Maimonides’ Political Thought; Ma ‘ase Nissim by Nissim of Marseilles [in Hebrew]; Prophecy: The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy; and Livyar Hen: The Work of Creation by Levi ben Avraham [in Hebrew].