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Gersonides or Levi ben Gershon , 1288-1344, Jewish philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, called also Ralbag, from the initials of his Hebrew name, b. Languedoc. He wrote scientific works and commentaries on Averroës and the Torah. His Milchamoth Adonai [the wars of the Lord] is an elaborate treatise modeled after the Moreh Nevukhim of Maimonides. It is mainly a systematic criticism of the syncretism of Maimonides. His scientific views remained influential into the 19th cent.
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Newspaper article from: The Jerusalem Report Stuart Schoffman February 10, 2003 700+ words ...de Deaux's Jew" -- a man known as Gersonides. There is, in fact, an essay by the...s "Manlius." But the figure of Gersonides goes beyond clever allusion and wordplay...astronomer Abraham Zacuto -- gives Gersonides's date of death as 1370, which enables... |
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Magazine article from: SciTech Book News March 1, 2007 700+ words ...addressed are the characteristics of the Latin version of Gersonides' Astronomy, Latin contributions to the theory and astronomical...of the pinhole camera, commentary on the two chapters in Gersonides' Astronomy that investigate the ability of homocentric models... |
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Nachman Krochmal: Guiding the Perplexed of the Modern Age.
Magazine article from: Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought Wolf, Arnold Jacob June 22, 1993 700+ words ...Haskalah. Jay Harris considers these five areas of Krochmal's work in particular: 1. His theology (which reminds us of Gersonides') and his idea of God as absolute spirit, as well as law-giver of commandments that reinforce the national survival... |
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Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post SHLOMO BRODY February 20, 2009 700+ words ...Exodus 30:12). Many medieval philosophers, including non-Jews like Thomas Aquinas, affirmed this power. Both Gersonides (1288-1344, France) and R. Yitzhak Arama (15th century, Spain), for example, elaborately explain how eyes can emit... |
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Hebrew Scholarship and the Medieval World.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society Harvey, Steven October 1, 2002 700+ words ...scholarship of a fourteenth-century Hispano-Jewish thinker (cf. Colette Sirat's evidence for the Latin influence on Gersonides in her chapter on the introductions of medieval Jewish exegetes to their Biblical commentaries). Adena Tanenbaum's comparative... |
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Magazine article from: Judaism Wolf, Arnold Jacob April 1, 2000 700+ words ...an accessible interpreter of tradition to modern, less scholarly Jews. Having completed major studies in Maimonides and Gersonides, the two most important Jewish philosophers, he has also produced several useful works designed for the general public... |
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Song of Songs. (Book Reviews).(Book Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Shofar Carr, David March 22, 2003 700+ words ...independent. He gives a relatively sympathetic reading of the history of interpretation of the Song, using the Targum, Gersonides, Origen, Jerome, and Bernhard of Clairvaux to illustrate central trends in its pre-modem reception. Overall, he understands... |
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This week in Jewish history
Newspaper article from: Jerusalem Post Elli Wohlgelernter April 25, 2001 700+ words ...Hakitrug Veha'emuna and Rehovot Hanahar, Israel Prize winner, 1981 Iyar 6 Yahrzeit of R. Levi b. Gershon (Ralbag, or Gersonides), philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, Bible commentator and talmudist, inventor of nautical instrument "Jacob... |
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Deconstructing Theodicy: Why Job Has Nothing to Say to the Puzzle of Suffering
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review Johnson, Timothy January 1, 2009 700+ words ...presence in the Qur'an, a chapter reviewing four classic commentaries on Job from Saadiah, Maimonides, Aquinas, and Gersonides, two final chapters reflecting on Burrell s thesis, a bibliography, and an index. I found this book to be intriguing... |
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Garrett, Aaron. Meaning in Spinoza's Method.(Book Review)
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