TY - BOOK ID - 146401099 TI - Before Maimonides : A New Philosophical Dialogue in Hebrew. PY - 2023 SN - 9789004529519 9789004686762 9004686762 PB - Boston : BRILL, DB - UniCat KW - General ethics KW - Jewish religion KW - Maimonides, Moses KW - anno 500-1499 KW - Spain KW - Jewish philosophy KW - Wills, Ethical KW - Tibon, Yehudah ibn, KW - Influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:146401099 AB - "All can agree that the achievement of Moses Maimonides (d. 1204) set the standard for subsequent works of "Jewish philosophy". But just what were the contours of philosophical-scientific inquiry that Maimonides replaced? A fairly large array of diverse texts have been studied, but no comprehensive picture has yet emerged. The newly discovered Hebrew dialogue published here has points of contact of various depth with most of the major works of pre-Maimonidean thought. It shares as well influences from without, especially from the Islamic kalam. The dialogue thus presents, in an engaging literary form, a clear and detailed snapshot of pre-Maimonidean philosophy and science"-- ER -