Jewish Philosophy on Milan Žonca

Israel ben Abraham: An Ashkenazic Translator of Aquinas?

Fri, 13 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This article presents an edition of a hitherto unidentified set of commented Hebrew excerpts from Thomas Aquinas’s Sentencia libri De anima.

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

Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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.

The ‘Imagined Communities’ of Yom Ṭov Lipman Mühlhausen: Heresy and Communal Boundaries in Sefer Niẓaḥon

Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines Yom Ṭov Lipman Mühlhausen’s treatise Sefer Niẓaḥon and argues that polemic against Christianity constitute only one facet of the book’s broader project, which aimed at popularising a Maimonidean reinterpretation of Jewish religion and redefining the boundaries of the Jewish community along intellectual lines.