| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 210 pages) |
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Intro; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Writings; Modern Scholarship on Ibn Kaspi's Philosophy of History; Maimonides on History; "The Reasons for the Stories" (Ta'amei ha-Sippurim); Gersonides, Ibn Kaspi, and the Ethical-Political Reading of the Bible in Fourteenth-Century Provence; Chapter Summary; Chapter 1 History as Power and Competition; "Man is Political" by "Nature" or "Necessity"; Why Write an Epitome of Averroes' Commentary on Plato's Republic?; Prophecy as Divination of Political History and the Chosenness of Israel |
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Divine Justice in the Bible and God's Role in History"The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah" (Gen. 49:8-10); Kingship (Deut. 17 and I Sam. 8); Four Animals and Four Kingdoms (Dan. 7); Destruction of the First Temple; Critique of Christian Eschatology: Reading Isaiah; Chapter 2 History as the Progressive Revelation of the Divine Chariot; The Divine Chariot as the Structure of Existence; Secrecy and Progress in Post-Maimonidean Thought; The Jewish Origins of Philosophy and Science; Biblical Characters as Historical Actors; The Biblical Discoverers of the Divine Chariot |
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The Divine Chariot and MiraclesThe Project of Teaching the Chariot: Inner-Biblical Exegesis from Genesis to Zechariah; The Sacrifices and the War on Idolatry; The Divine Chariot and the Tripartite Structure of the Guide; Ethical Implications of the Knowledge of the Divine Chariot; Moral Virtues; Moral Mistakes; Judaism vs. Christianity on the Popular Dissemination of the Divine Chariot; Chapter 3 The Pedagogical Structure of the Hebrew Bible; "The Torah is from Heaven" and the Hebrew Language; Structure of the Text; Internal Biblical Contradictions |
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The First Contradiction: Multiple Authorship of the BibleThe Third Contradiction: Resurrection of the Dead; The Fourth Contradiction: Are Children Punished for Sins of Parents?; The Seventh Contradiction: Human Freedom vs. God's Determinism; Dispersal; Empty Spaces; Repetitions; Selectivity and Absence; Historical Conventions and the Relationship to Surrounding Cultures; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Caspi, Joseph, approximately 1280-approximately 1340.
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| SUBJECT |
Caspi, Joseph, approximately 1280-approximately 1340 fast |
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Jewish philosophy.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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History -- Philosophy.
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History -- Philosophy
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Jewish philosophy
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Philosophy, Medieval
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438476049 |
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1438476043 |
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