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Crescas: Light of the Lord (Or Hashem) : Translated with Introduction and Notes by Roslyn Weiss, Robin Weiss is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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This book is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas's Light of the Lord, widely acknowledged as a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy and second in importance only to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. In it Crescas takes on not only Maimonides but, through him, Aristotle, and challenges views of physics and metaphysics that had become entrenched in medieval thought. Once the Aristotelian underpinnings of medieval thought are dislodged, Crescas introduces alternative ph
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- Author
- Roslyn Weiss, Robin Weiss
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198724896
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Judaism, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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