Power and Progress: Joseph Ibn Kaspi and the Meaning of History
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Writings -- Modern Scholarship on Ibn Kaspi's Philosophy of History -- Maimonides on History -- "The Reasons for the Stories" (Ta'amei ha-Sippurim) -- Gersonides, Ibn Kaspi, and the Ethical-Politi...
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| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2019
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| In: | Year: 2019 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Kaspi, Yosef 1280-1340
/ Philosophy of history
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| Further subjects: | B
Caspi, Joseph,-approximately 1280-approximately 1340
B Jewish Philosophy B History-Philosophy B Philosophy, Medieval B Electronic books |
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| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Writings -- Modern Scholarship on Ibn Kaspi's Philosophy of History -- Maimonides on History -- "The Reasons for the Stories" (Ta'amei ha-Sippurim) -- Gersonides, Ibn Kaspi, and the Ethical-Political Reading of the Bible in Fourteenth-Century Provence -- Chapter Summary -- Chapter 1 History as Power and Competition -- "Man is Political" by "Nature" or "Necessity" -- Why Write an Epitome of Averroes' Commentary on Plato's Republic? -- Prophecy as Divination of Political History and the Chosenness of Israel -- Divine Justice in the Bible and God's Role in History -- "The Scepter Shall Not Depart from Judah" (Gen. 49:8-10) -- Kingship (Deut. 17 and I Sam. 8) -- Four Animals and Four Kingdoms (Dan. 7) -- Destruction of the First Temple -- Critique of Christian Eschatology: Reading Isaiah -- Chapter 2 History as the Progressive Revelation of the Divine Chariot -- The Divine Chariot as the Structure of Existence -- Secrecy and Progress in Post-Maimonidean Thought -- The Jewish Origins of Philosophy and Science -- Biblical Characters as Historical Actors -- The Biblical Discoverers of the Divine Chariot -- The Divine Chariot and Miracles -- The Project of Teaching the Chariot: Inner-Biblical Exegesis from Genesis to Zechariah -- The Sacrifices and the War on Idolatry -- The Divine Chariot and the Tripartite Structure of the Guide -- Ethical Implications of the Knowledge of the Divine Chariot -- Moral Virtues -- Moral Mistakes -- Judaism vs. Christianity on the Popular Dissemination of the Divine Chariot -- Chapter 3 The Pedagogical Structure of the Hebrew Bible -- "The Torah is from Heaven" and the Hebrew Language -- Structure of the Text -- Internal Biblical Contradictions -- The First Contradiction: Multiple Authorship of the Bible. |
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| ISBN: | 1438476043 |