Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION : Thematizing a Tradition
  • Content
  • Philo's Conception of the Divine Nature
  • Solomon Ibn Gabirol's Doctrine of Intelligible Matter
  • Parallel Structures in the Metaphysics of Iamblichus and Ibn Gabiror
  • Ibn Gabirol: The Sage Among the Schoolmen
  • From What is One and Simple only What is One and Simple Can Come to Be·
  • Maimonides and Neoplatonism: Challenge and Response
  • Maimonidean Naturalism
  • The Virtue of FaithWhy not Pursue the Metaphor of Artisan and View God's Knowledge as Practical?
  • Matter as Creature and Matter as the Source of Evil: Maimonides and Aquinas
  • Divine Unity in Maimonides, the Tosafists and Me'iri
  • Platonic Themes in Gersonides' Doctrine of the Active Intellect
  • Utterance and Ineffability in Jewish Neoplatonism
  • Self-Contraction of the Godhead in Kabbalistic Theology·
  • Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  • Love and Intellect in Leone Ebreo: The Joys and Pains of Human Passion
  • Spinoza, Neopiatonic Kabbalist?The Psychodynamics of Neoplatonic Ontology
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • The Contributors
  • INDEX