JOSEPH DAN is Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• IntroductionCultural and Religious Traditions in Ninth-Century French Jewry by Robert BonfilKabbalistic and Gnostic Dualism by Joseph DanThe Beginning of Science Among the Jews of Spain by José María Millás VallicrosaPolitical Philosophy and Halakhah in Maimonides by Warren Zev HarveyThe "First Created Being" in Early Kabbalah: Philosophical and Ismailian Sources by Sara O. Heller WilenskyA German-Jewish Autobiography of the Fourteenth Century by Israel J. YuvalRashi and the World Around Him by Yitzhak F. BaerMenahem Meiri's Attitude Toward Gentiles--Apologetics or Worldview? by Gerald J. BlidsteinThe Image of God as the Source of Man's Evil, According to the Maharal of Prague by Yoram JacobsonKabbalistic Ethical Literature in Sixteenth-Century Safed by Mordechai PachterThe Influence of Spanish-Jewish Culture on the Jews of Ashkenaz and Poland in the Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries by Jacob Elbaum

JOSEPH DAN is Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• IntroductionCultural and Religious Traditions in Ninth-Century French Jewry by Robert BonfilKabbalistic and Gnostic Dualism by Joseph DanThe Beginning of Science Among the Jews of Spain by José María Millás VallicrosaPolitical Philosophy and Halakhah in Maimonides by Warren Zev HarveyThe "First Created Being" in Early Kabbalah: Philosophical and Ismailian Sources by Sara O. Heller WilenskyA German-Jewish Autobiography of the Fourteenth Century by Israel J. YuvalRashi and the World Around Him by Yitzhak F. BaerMenahem Meiri's Attitude Toward Gentiles--Apologetics or Worldview? by Gerald J. BlidsteinThe Image of God as the Source of Man's Evil, According to the Maharal of Prague by Yoram JacobsonKabbalistic Ethical Literature in Sixteenth-Century Safed by Mordechai PachterThe Influence of Spanish-Jewish Culture on the Jews of Ashkenaz and Poland in the Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries by Jacob Elbaum