TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rudavsky,Tamar
TI  - Time matters: time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy 
T2  - SUNY series in Jewish philosophy
SN  - 0791444538
AV  - B755 .R83 2000
U1  - ARCH YNDC 113.08 R913T  21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Albany, N.Y.
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Time
KW  - Creation
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Jewish cosmology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index; Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem --; Biblical Conceptions of Time --; Rabbinical Models of Time and Creation --; Time, Order, and Creation in the Greek Philosophical Tradition --; Ancient Greek Astronomy and Cosmology --; Plotinus and the Neoplatonist Tradition --; Time, Creation, and Cosmology --; Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed --; Creation Models in Maimonides --; Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides --; Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas --; The Subjectivity of Time according to Albo --; Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation --; Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno --; Traversing the Infinite: Zeno, Aristotle, and John Philoponus --; Jewish Neoplatonic Considerations of Infinite Divisibility --; Meeting the Kalam Challenge: Kalam Atomism Described --; Rejection of Kalam Atomism: Saadia Gaon, Halevi, Ibn Daud, and Maimonides --; Gersonides on the Continuum --; Crescas on Infinity, Space, and the Vacuum --; Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience --; The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox --; Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom --; Compatibilism in Jewish Kalam: Saadia Gaon and Halevi --; Maimonides' Compatibilism --; Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud --; Omniscience and Human Freedom in Gersonides --; Indeterminism and Prophecy --; The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on Divine Knowledge and Possibility --; Prelude to Modernity --; Newton and His Philosophical Precursors --; Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism
N2  - "Despite the importance of time and cosmology to Western thought, surprisingly little attention has been paid to these issues in histories of Jewish philosophy. Focusing on how medieval philosophers constructed a philosophical theology that was sensitive to religious constraints and yet also incorporated compelling elements of science and philosophy, T.M. Rudavsky traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in the writings of Ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Gersonides, Crescas, Spinoza, and others."--Jacket
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