Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-434) and index.
Contents
""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS""; ""PREFACE""; ""EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION : Thematizing a Tradition""; ""Content""; ""Philo's Conception of the Divine Nature""; ""Solomon Ibn Gabirol's Doctrine of Intelligible Matter""; ""Parallel Structures in the Metaphysics of Iamblichus and Ibn Gabiror""; ""Ibn Gabirol: The Sage Among the Schoolmen""; ""From What is One and Simple only What is One and Simple Can Come to Be·""; ""Maimonides and Neoplatonism: Challenge and Response""; ""Maimonidean Naturalism""
""The Virtue of Faith""""Why not Pursue the Metaphor of Artisan and View God's Knowledge as Practical?""; ""Matter as Creature and Matter as the Source of Evil: Maimonides and Aquinas""; ""Divine Unity in Maimonides, the Tosafists and Me'iri""; ""Platonic Themes in Gersonides' Doctrine of the Active Intellect""""; ""Utterance and Ineffability in Jewish Neoplatonism""; ""Self-Contraction of the Godhead in Kabbalistic Theology·""; ""Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance""; ""Love and Intellect in Leone Ebreo: The Joys and Pains of Human Passion""