Before Maimonides

Y. Tzvi Langermann, Ph.D. (1979), Harvard, History of Science, is Professor Emeritus of Arabic at Bar Ilan University, He has published extensively on medieval science and philosophy, especially basing his research on unpublished manuscript materials. His most recent book is In and Around Maimonides (Gorgias, 2021).

• Acknowledgements1 Introduction: Situating Pre-Maimonidean Jewish Philosophy1 The Manuscript2 The Dialogue between Intellect and Soul2 Conspectus3 The Historical-Philosophical Context: Pre-Maimonidean Jewish Thought in the Iberian Peninsula1 Contemporaneous Jewish Sources2 Pairs of Opposites as a Fundamental Feature of the Created Universe3 The Mystical Death Wish4 Greek Sources5 Islamic Sources: The Kalam6 Polemical Targets7 Conclusions4 Transcription, Translation, Innovation1 Transcriptions2 New Translations Announced by the Dialogue3 Din and ḥoq4 Innovative or Unusual Usages of Hebrew Word Forms5 yesh: Issues of Syntax and MeaningText and TranslationBibliographyIndices