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>Gersonides' Interpretation of the Stories of the Creation of Man and the Garden of Eden
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Publisher:
Year:
2015
Catalog number :
45-101130
ISBN:
978-965-493-794-8
Pages:
437
Language:
Weight:
800 gr.
Cover:
Paperback

Gersonides' Interpretation of the Stories of the Creation of Man and the Garden of Eden

Synopsis
The book deals with one of the most interesting biblical exegeses of Gersonides (Provence, 1288-1344): the interpretation of the stories of the creation of man and the Garden of Eden. It explains their philosophical meaning; the methods used in them; their dependence on Averroes's commentaries on Aristotle and their relationships with Gersonides' other writings, especially his commentary on Song of Songs and the Wars of the Lord.
Reviews

"She makes extensive use of a vitally important but understudied component of the Gersonidean oeuvre—his supercommentaries on the Aristotelian corpus, which were written not directly on Aristotle’s books but on the commentaries to his books by the medieval Islamic philosopher Averroes. Reading Gersonides’ works intertextually allows Klein-Braslavi to expose common themes that run through the thinker’s various books and to illuminate gnomic lines in the biblical commentary from more expansive discussions in the philosophical-scientific works. This book is of crucial importance to students of medieval Jewish philosophy and philosophical Bible exegesis." - AJL, by Pinchas Roth, February 2016
Katharsis 24, by Dov Shwartz, December 2015
Shvua Hasefer, by: Gadi Eidelheit, December 2015
Review of Biblical Literature, September 2015