Menaḥem ben Jacob Shalem and the Study of Philosophy in Late Medieval Prague

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Abstract

The article examines the study of philosophical works, most notably Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed and its commentaries, among the Jews living in Prague at the turn of the fifteenth century. It focuses on a Jewish author named Menaḥem ben Jacob Shalem and his fragmentary treatise discussing motifs from Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed, III:51. The article also discusses later dissemination of Menaḥem’s texts.

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Milan Žonca, ‘Menaḥem ben Jacob Shalem and the Study of Philosophy in Late Medieval Prague’, in Studying the Arts in Late Medieval Bohemia, ed. Ota Pavlíček, Studia artistarum 48 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1484/M.SA-EB.5.122631.

@incollection{zonca2021,
    author    = {Žonca, Milan},
    editor    = {Pavlíček, Ota},
    year      = {2021},
    title     = {Menaḥem ben {Jacob} {Shalem} and the {Study} of {Philosophy} in {Late} {Medieval} {Prague}},
    booktitle = {Studying the {Arts} in {Late} {Medieval} {Bohemia}},
    publisher = {Brepols},
    address   = {Turnhout},
    pages     = {27--47},
    doi       = {10.1484/M.SA-EB.5.122631},
}