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Title Studies in Jewish religious and intellectual history : presented to Alexander Altmann on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / edited by Siegfried Stein and Raphael Loewe
Published London : University of Alabama Press, [1979]
©1979

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Description 362 pages, 108 pages ; 25 cm
Contents The crisis of authority within European Jewry in the eighteenth century / Chimen Abramsky (London) -- Civil versus political emancipation / Salo Wittmayer Baron (New York) -- The structure of the Commandments of the Torah in the thought of Maimonides / Lawrence V. Berman (Stanford) -- The concept of knowledge in the Shu̐r Oomah / Joseph Dan (Jerusalem) -- The principle that a finite body can contain only finite power / Herbert Davidson (Los Angeles) -- The doctrine of the mean in Aristotle and Maimonides: a comparative study / Marvin Fox (Brandeis) -- Was Franz Rosenzweig a mystic? / Nahum N. Glatzer (Brandeis) -- Maimonides' Guide of the perplexed: towards a critical edition / Mosheh H. Goshen-Gottstein (Jerusalem) -- Averroes on causation / Alfred L. Ivry (Brandeis) -- Eating as an act of worship in Hasidic thought / Louis Jacobs (London) -- Mendelssohn und Lessing in ihrer Stellung zur Geschichte / the late Hans Liebeschütz (Liverpool) -- Ibn Gabirol's treatment of sources in the Kether Malkhuth / Raphael Loewe (London) -- Die Geburtsgeschichte Moses / Samuel E. Loewenstamm (Jerusalem) -- The Jewish religion after the destruction of temple and state: the views of Bodin and Spinoza / Shlomo Pines (Jerusalem) -- Hebrew and Arabic in medieval Jewish philosophy / C. Rabin (Jerusalem) -- Some observations on Yohanan Alemanno's political ideas / Erwin I. J. Rosenthal (Cambridge, England) -- Enlightenment: between Mendelssohn and Kant / Nathan Rotenstreich (Jerusalem) -- The psalm superscriptions and the guilds / Nahum M. Sarna (Brandeis) -- The concept of the "fence": observations on its origin and development / Siegfried Stein (London -Jerusalem) -- Les deux théories de Maimonides sur la providence / Charles Touati (Paris) -- Pour le dossier de Metatron / Georges Vajda (Paris) -- O Felix culpa: a Cabbalistic version / R.J. Zwi Werblowsky (Jerusalem) -- Subject-matter of articles in Hebrew Self-depreciation (qatnuth peshituth) and disavowal of knowledge (ʼeyni yodeʻa) in Nahman of Braslav / Ada Rapoport-Albert (London) -- Ibn al-ʻam alias (Ibn) Balaam, philologist, exegete, poet, Halakist and controversialist / Nehemia Allony (Beer Sheba) -- The smile of the three lights in Solomon Alqabes̓ ʼAyeleth ʼAhavim / Bracha Sack (Jerusalem) -- Yedaʻyah Ha-Penini's commentary on the ʼAggadah / Isidore Isaac Twersky (Harvard) -- The possible connection of Sabbataeanism, Haskalah and Reform Judaism / Jacob Katz (Jerusalem) -- The case-history of Joseph della Reyna / Gershom G. Scholem (Jerusalem)
Analysis Judaism
Notes Added t.p.: ʻAyin ḥadah
Essays in English, French, German, and Hebrew
Bibliography "Bibliography of the published writings of Alexander Altmann": pages 1-[12]
Subject Altmann, Alexander, 1906-1987.
Altmann, Alexander
Judaism -- History.
Judaism.
Author Loewe, Raphael.
Stein, Siegfried, 1909-1995.
Institute of Jewish Studies (London, England)
LC no. 77007294
ISBN 0817369252
Other Titles ʻAyin ḥadah
880-01 ʻAyin ḥadah
880-01 עין הד"ח