Volume 13, Number 1 (January 2022)
General Editors
Deborah Barer
Mark Randall James
Book Review Editor
Nechama Juni
Managing Editor
Ashley Tate
Founding Editors
Peter Ochs
Steven Kepnes
Introduction
Crescas Among the Textual Reasoners
Mark Randall James, Independent Scholar
Crescas and Scripture
Hasdai Crescas’s Philosophical Biblical Exegesis
Roslyn Weiss, Lehigh University
The Inexhaustible Metaphor of Light: Illuminating the Fault Lines Between Crescas and Maimonides
James A. Diamond, University of Waterloo
Crescas and Philosophy
Four Critiques of Crescas against Maimonides and the Relationship of Intellect and Practice in Religion
Alexander Green, SUNY Buffalo
Philosophy and Religion in R. Crescas’s Light of the Lord
Shalom Tzadik, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Hasdai Crescas and Simeon ben Zemah Duran on Tradition versus Rational Inquiry
Seth (Avi) Kadish, Oranim Academic College of Education and University of Haifa
Thinking with Crescas
“I Feel Love”: Hasdai Crescas on Reward and Punishment
Igor H. De Souza, Yale University
R. Hasdai Crescas and the Concept of Motivation in Modern Psychology and the Philosophy of Education
Esti Eisenmann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Crescas on Time, Space, and Infinity
Tamar Rudavsky, The Ohio State University
Reading Crescas
Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Authentic Jewish Piety: Yitzhak Baer and Julius Guttmann on Hasdai Crescas’s Philosophy
Ari Ackerman, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
Wolfson’s Pragmatic Crescas
Warren Zev Harvey, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Afterward
Innovation in Crescas’s Light of the Lord
Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
Book Reviews
Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer, Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought: Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov Falaquera
Alexander Green, SUNY Buffalo
Paul Nahme, Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Enchantment of the Public Sphere
Sam S.B. Shonkoff, Graduate Theological Union
Randi Rashkover, Nature and Norm: Judaism, Christianity, and the Theo-Political Problem
Mark Randall James, Independent Scholar