Hasdai Crescas on codification, cosmology, and creation : the infinite God and the expanding Torah /

Hasdai Crescas on codification, cosmology, and creation : the infinite God and the expanding Torah /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Ackerman, Ari, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Description:	xii, 234 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, 1873-9008 ; volume 33 Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; volume 33.
Subject:	Crescas, Ḥasdai, -- 1340-approximately 1410. Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, -- 1186-1237. Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, -- 1186-1237. Crescas, Ḥasdai, -- 1340-approximately 1410. Bible. -- Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. Bible. -- Pentateuch. God (Judaism) Jewish philosophy -- Early works to 1800. Philosophy, Medieval. God (Judaism) Philosophy, Medieval.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12764979

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ISBN:	9789004518643 9004518649 9789004518650
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-229) and indexes.
Summary:	"This work focuses on the conception of God of the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It demonstrates that Crescas' God is infinitely creative and good and explores the parallel that Crescas implicitly draws between God as creator and legislator, which is rooted in his understanding of the Deity as continuously involved in generative activity through the outpouring of goodness and love as manifest by multiple, simultaneous and successive worlds and a perpetually expanding Torah. It also reviews the Maimonidean background for Crescas' position and suggests that Crescas is countering Maimonides' stance that creation is limited to a single moment and Maimonides' notion of the Torah as perfect and immutable"--
Other form:	Online version: Ackerman, Ari. Hasdai Crescas on codification, cosmology, and creation Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022 9789004518650

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