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By Robert Eisen

ISBN-10: 0195171535

ISBN-13: 9780195171532

Medieval Jewish philosophers were studied broadly through sleek students, yet even supposing their philosophical pondering used to be frequently formed by means of their interpretation of the Bible, really little awareness has been paid to them as biblical interpreters. during this learn, Robert Eisen breaks new flooring by means of reading how six medieval Jewish philosophers approached the e-book of activity. those thinkers lined are Saadiah Gaon, Moses Maimonides, Samuel ibn Tibbon, Zerahiah chicken, Gersonides, and Simon ben Zemah Duran. Eisen explores every one philosopher's interpreting of task on 3 degrees: its courting to interpretations of task by way of past Jewish philosophers, the best way it grapples with the key problems within the textual content, and its interplay with the author's systematic philosophical proposal. Eisen additionally examines the resonance among the readings of activity of medieval Jewish philosophers and people of contemporary biblical students. What emerges is a portrait of a college of Joban interpretation that was once inventive, unique, and every now and then strangely radical. Eisen hence demonstrates that medieval Jewish philosophers have been critical exegetes whom students can't have enough money to disregard. via bringing a previously-overlooked element of those thinkers' paintings to gentle, Eisen provides new intensity to our wisdom of either Jewish philosophy and biblical interpretation.

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