Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Its Literary Forms

Aaron W. Hughes is the Philip S. Bernstein Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of many books, including Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism. James T. Robinson is the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of the History of Judaism, Islamic Studies, and the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of several books and articles on medieval Jewish philosophy, literature, and biblical exegesis.

Introduction / Aaron W. Hughes and James T. Robinson


1. Animal Fables and Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Kalman P. Bland, z'l


2. Biblical Commentaries as a Genre of Jewish Philosophical Writing / Raphael Dascalu


3. Commentaries on The Guide of the Perplexed: A Brief Literary History / Igor H. de Souza


4. Philosophical Commentary and Supercommentary: The Hebrew Aristotelean Commentaries of the Fourteenth through Sixteenth Centuries / Yehuda Halper


5. The Author's Haqdamah as a Literary Form in Jewish Thought / Steven Harvey


6. Does Judaism Make Sense? Early Medieval Kalām as Literature / Gyongyi Hegedus


7. Dialogues / Aaron W. Hughes


8. Poetry / Aaron W. Hughes


9. Poetic Summaries of Scientific and Philosophical Works / Maud Kozodoy


10. The Philosophical Epistle as a Genre of Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Charles Manekin


11. The Sermon in Late Medieval Jewish Thought as Method for Popularizing Philosophy / Chaim Meir Neria


12. Lexicons and Lexicography in Medieval Jewish Philosophy / James T. Robinson


13. Theological Summas in Late Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Shira Weiss


Index