INTRODUCTION

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE 7
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
5. INTRODUCTION 11
6. CHAPTER ONE. Providence and the Rabbinic Tradition 29
7. CHAPTER TWO. Mosaic Prophecy: Maimonides and Gersonides 47
8. CHAPTER THREE. Eschatology and Miracles 71
9. CHAPTER FOUR. Creation, Miracles, Revelation 101
10. CHAPTER FIVE. Song of Songs and Gersonides’ World 121
11. CHAPTER SIX. Maimonides and Gersonides on Astronomy and Metaphysics 149
12. CHAPTER SEVEN. Gersonides on the Song of Songs and the Nature of Science 159
13. CHAPTER EIGHT. Politics and Perfection: Gersonides vs. Maimonides 181
14. CHAPTER NINE. The Role of the Active Intellect in Human Cognition 207
15. CHAPTER TEN. Imitatio Dei and the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge 235
16. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Moses ibn Tibbon and Gersonides on Song of Songs 255
17. CHAPTER TWELVE. Misogyny: Gersonides vs. Maimonides 283
18. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Gersonides and his Cultured Despisers: Arama and Abravanel 305
19. AFTERWORD – PERSONAL REFLECTIONS 333
20. WORKS CITED 337
21. INDEX 365