ISBN:
9781602801387
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 431 S.
Year of publication:
2010
DDC:
181.06
Keywords:
Maimonides, Moses 1135-1204 Congresses
;
Rashi 1040-1105 Congresses
;
Jewish philosophy Congresses
;
Philosophy, Medieval Congresses
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Rashi and Maimonides on Christianity / Daniel Lasker -- Rashi and Maimonides on Torah and the cosmos / Menahem Kellner -- The separate intellects and Maimonides' argumentation (an inquiry into Guide of the Perplexed II, 2,12) / Dov Schwartz -- The ravings of amulet writers: Maimonides and his disciples on language, nature and magic / Aviezer Ravitzky -- On Maimonides in Nahmanides and his school / Moshe Idel -- Where penitents stand, even the wholly righteous cannot stand / Nahum Rakover -- The first crusade narrative of R. Eliezer B. Nathan / Robert Chazan -- The problem of identity in Rashi, Rambam and the Tosafists / Rabbi Bleich -- Between Ashkenaz and Sefarad: Tosafist teachings in the Talmud commentaries of Ritva / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Sages on stages, or guides on the sides? Rashi, Rambam and constructivist educational theory / Scott J. Goldberg and Moshe Sokolow -- The weight of midrash on Rashi and Maimonides / Alfred Ivry -- Maimonides vs. Rashi: philosophical and philological-ethical approaches to Job / Mordekhai Cohen -- Ve-af al pi she-hazal qiblu: peshat and halakhah in Radak's exegesis / Naomi Grunhaus -- Ramban on the dynamics of the biblical dialogue in the Book of Genesis / Michelle J. Levine -- Words unfitly spoken: late medieval criticism of the role of midrash in Rashi's commentary on the Torah / Eric Lawee
Note:
The genesis of this volume was an international conference held at Yeshiva University in late 2004, to mark both the 900th anniversary of the passing of Rashi (1040-1105) and the 800th anniversary of the passing of Maimonides (d. 1204)
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