A Philosopher-Prophet or an Angel? A Skeptical Reading of Isaac Albalag’s Theory of Prophecy

In his Sefer tikun ha-de‘ot, the thirteenth-century Jewish philosopher Isaac Albalag advocates the double truth doctrine, according to which the truth of philosophy and the truth of religion are contradictory yet simultaneously true. To support this doctrine, Albalag offers an unusual conception of...

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Main Author: Abdalla, Bakinaz (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2022
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2022, Volume: 112, Issue: 4, Pages: 670-696
Further subjects:B intellectual perfection
B Conjunction
B Religion
B Al-Ghazali
B Skepticism
B Averoes
B Philosophy
B Truth
B Isaac Albalag medieval Jewish philosophy
B Contradiction
B Prophecy
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