Index
ʿattah (instant)
162–67
Abba Mari of Lunel
11–12
Sefer ha-Yarḥi
11
Alatino, Moses
translation of Themistius’s paraphrase of On the Heavens
299–302
Albo, Joseph
141, 143–44
Sefer ha-ʿIkkarim
141, 144
Alexander of Aphrodisias
93n114, 95–98, 147–48
Archivolti, Samuel
219, 222–23
Aristotle
Aristotelianism
1–2, 4, 7, 73n46, 91n108, 182, 269n6, 287–92
concept of time
157–60
translations of
3, 76
Averroes
Averroism
3–4, 74, 74n50, 75–76, 76n58, 77–79
commentaries on Aristotle
74–79
Decisive Treatise (Faṣl al-maqāl)
88–89, 142, 146
Incoherence of the Incoherence (Tahāfut al-Tahāfut)
146–54, 160–61, 167, 182
Long Commentary on Metaphysics
104–11, 114–15, 119–20, 147–48, 150–54, 160
Long Commentary on On the Heavens
111–14
Long Commentary on On the Soul
79–86, 92–101, 122–24
noetic theories
92–99
on God’s knowledge of particulars
146–48
Beccadelli, Cesare
28
Boccadiferro, Ludovico
290–94, 297
Bologna, University of
290–92, 295, 295n30, 298n45, 299, 303
briʾah
167
Bril (Löwe), Joel
310
Calman Judaeus
35
Commentary on Job (Sforno)
149, 149n25, 279n31
aim
220–21
attribution
218–19
commentary method
225–31
Elihu’s speech
224
God’s speech
224–25
manuscripts and ancient editions of
222–23
Crescas, Ḥasdai
Or ha-Shem
60n, 141, 141n2, 216, 216n2, 218
Daud, Abraham ibn
The Exalted Faith
145–46
Del Medigo, Elijah
4, 38, 42, 76n58, 85, 88–89, 288–89
Duran, Simon
Commentary on Job
222–23, 251
election (of the nation [Israel])
313–15
exile
309, 311, 313
ʿEzra, Abraham ibn
184, 226, 231, 254–55
Falaquera, Shem Ṭov
11–12, 162–63
Fārābī, Abū Nasr al-
144–45
Farissol, Abraham
Commentary on Job
219, 228, 230–31, 241n52, 251n75, 254
Finzi, Moses
295–300, 303
Gerson (Gersonides), Levi ben
8, 145, 145n15
Commentary on Job
221, 221n17, 228–30, 251–57
Wars of the Lord
169–71
God
knowledge of particulars in Jewish philosophy
143–46
true research of
231–36
Grimani, Domenico
38, 289
Grosseteste, Robert
163, 178, 299
Halevi, Judah
Sefer ha-Kuzari
11, 69n38
Haskalah
310–11, 315–16
Hebrew, printing of
40–42
Hebrew, teaching of
34–35, 41–42
holiness
185–88, 312–14
ḥakham kollel
217
Ḥarizi, Judah al-
translation of Maimonides’s Guide
46, 163
ḥesed (kindness)
29, 312–13, 314n19
ḥidduš
167, 169
image of God (imago Dei, ṣelem Elohim)
182, 184–88, 208, 245, 281, 312–16
immortality of the soul
3–4, 71–72, 79, 89–101, 120, 125–26, 204, 315n22(
Light of the Nations
)
Israel, nation of
281, 311, 313–15
Jewish Aid Association (Bologna)
27
Kabbalah
42–48
Latin, use by Hebrew scholars
216–18
Light of the Nations (Or ʿAmmim/Lumen Gentium)
7–9, 13–19, 43, 57–127, 148–54, 170–75, 182, 190–211, 236, 270, 276–82
Aristotelian-Averroan corpus
78–89
introduction/introductory epistle of
8, 11–19, 58–61, 63–66, 66n24, 161–62, 206, 269n8
manuscripts of
194–96
philosophical propositions in
161–62
on divine knowledge of the particulars (chapter 9)
141–42, 148–54
on individual providence (chapter 11)
197–99, 205–6, 248, 250–51
on morality (chapter 13)
186, 256–57
on the movement of generation and corruption (chapter 1)
164–67
on prime matter (chapter 3)
248–49
on the immortality of the soul (chapter 12)
89–92, 100–124
summary of (Klal ha-ʿolah/Summarium)
196, 202–10
Loans, Jacob Jechiel
35–36
Maimonides, Moses
10–12, 59–63, 177, 182–84
Book of Knowledge
59
Commentary on the Mishnah
143
Epistle to Yemen
10
Guide of the Perplexed
11–12, 42–49, 59–61, 105n148, 163, 184, 188, 216–17, 220, 220n15, 242n57, 243n58, 255–57
man, highest good of
239–48
Manetti, Giannozzo
43
Mendelssohn, Moses
310n8, 311, 315–16
messianism
309–11
middabber
182–83
money-lending in the Hebrew Bible
28–29
nature
laws continually corrected by Providence
237–44
new rules after the Flood
241–42
Nola, Elijah ben Joseph di
297–303
translation of Summa Physicorum (Grosseteste)
163, 299
Padua, University of
1, 289, 290
Paqudah, Baḥya ibn
143
polemics, anti-Christian
309
prime matter
102, 117–20, 248–49
Qehillot Moshe (Rabbinic Bible, Amsterdam 1724)
310
Ramazzotti, Armaciotto di
39–40
redemption
309, 311, 313, 315–16
regaʿ (instant)
162–67
regaʿ bilti mitḥaleq (indivisible instant)
163, 167
Reuchlin, Johannes
33–49, 183n5
personal library
41–42, 45
De arte cabalistica
44–45, 47–48, 187–88
Rovere, Giulio della (da Milano)
65, 192–93
Ruaḥ Ḥen
42–43, 47–49
Saadia Gaon
10, 143, 217
salvation
314–15
scepticism
6
Scholasticism
1–3, 6–8, 177–79
Sefer Zemirot Yisraʾel (Berlin, 1785–91)
310, 315
ṣelem Elohim
.
see image of God
Sforno, Obadiah
chronology of writings
191, 200–201, 270–82
Commentary on Ecclesiastes
186–87
Commentary on Job
(
see Commentary on Job (Sforno)
)
Commentary on the Pentateuch
10, 28–31, 176–77, 182–186, 271, 275–82
Commentary on Pirqe Avot
236, 256, 279n31
Commentary on Psalms
309–16
family
25, 25n2, 27
last will and testament
25–28
Light of the Nations
(
see Light of the Nations
)
on creation
167, 170–77
on eternity
185–86
on imitatio Dei
182, 185–86
on money-lending
28–30
on prophecy
183
on providence, different kinds of
236–49
on taxes
30–31
on time
161, 167
oral lessons (Amar ha-gaʾon)
272–76
taxes, Jewish sources on
30–31
Tibbon, Samuel ben Judah ibn
Lexicon of Philosophical Terms
61–63
translation of Maimonides’s Guide
163
Themistius
93n114, 96–98, 147–48, 154, 293, 299 (
Alatino, Moses
)
Thomas Aquinas
177
wisdom
alienation of
5
Greek
12, 70–73
loss of/lost
4, 12
origin of
11–12, 69
prisca sapientia
66–70
Zanettini/Zanitini, Pietro
25–26