Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 2, 2023

Notes on Contributors





What Does the Messiah Know?


A Prelude to Kabbalah’s Trinity Complex


 Jeremy Phillip Brown





“The Last German Jew”


A Perspectival Reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s Dual Identity through His Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute


 Libera Pisano





“The Divine Philosopher”


Rebbe Pinhas of Korets’s Kabbalah as Natural Philosophy


 Jeffrey G. Amshalem





Questioning Traditions


Readings of Annius of Viterbo’s Antiquitates in the Cinquecento: The Case of Judah Abarbanel


 Maria Vittoria Comacchi





Bordering Two Worlds


Hillel Zeitlin’s Spiritual Diary


 Jonatan Meir





Scepticism in Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Peruš Qohelet)


 Rebecca Kneller-Rowe





The Forgotten Branch


Mediators of Philosophical Knowledge in Eastern European Jewish Thought


 Isaac Slater





Spinoza’s Moral Scepticism


An Overview of Giuseppe Rensi’s Interpretation


 Michela Torbidoni





Mobility and Creativity


David de’ Pomis and the Place of the Jews in Renaissance Italy


 Guido Bartolucci





The Language of Truth


The Śefat Emet Association (Salonica 1890) and Its Taqqanot (Bylaws)


 Tamir Karkason