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Book SynopsisThe Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles, which seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies.
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Editorial Giuseppe Veltri and Ze’ev Strauss 1 A Maimonidean Life Joseph ben Judah Ibn Shimʿon of Ceuta’s Biography Reconstructed Reimund Leicht 2 Persecution and the Art of Commentary Rabbi Moses Narboni’s Analysis of al-Ġazālī’s Maqāṣid al Falāsifah (Aims of the Philosophers) Gitit Holzman 3 Doubt and Certainty in Late Modern Kabbalah A Tale of Two Schools Jonathan Garb 4 Where Is Sanctity to Be Found? A Sceptical Approach to Jewish Tradition and Zionist Utopia in Agnon’s A Guest for the Night Anna Lissa 5 Jean Bodin’s Universalism and the Twofold Foundations of Natural Religion A New Reading of the Colloquium heptaplomeres Gianni Paganini 6 Nancy’s Pleasure in Kant’s Agitation Adi Louria Hayon 7 Not by Socrates, but by the Splendour of Israel Philosophy and Kabbalah in Abraham Miguel Cardozo’s Early Thought Mark Marion Gondelman 8 Looking for Signs Criticism, Doubts, and Popular Belief in Fifteenth-Century Germany Jürgen Sarnowsky
