Before Maimonides: A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew

by Y Tzvi Langermann

All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of "Jewish philosophy". But just what were the contours of philosophical-scientific inquiry that Maimonides replaced? A fairly large array of diverse texts have been studied, but no comprehensive picture has yet emerged. The newly discovered Hebrew dialogue published here has points of contact of various depth with most of the major works of pre-Maimonidean...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004529519
• ISBN13: 9789004529519
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 160 Pages