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In the Preface to the Guide of the Perplexed (c.1190), Maimonides asks his readers not to write commentaries on the text. In spite of his request, formal commentaries and glosses began to appear in the 13th century and continued to be written until the early 19th century. This m…

This dissertation is a critical Hebrew edition, annotated English translation, and detailed study of Rabbi Ezra ben Solomon of Gerona's kabbalistic exposition on the meaning of the biblical commandments (early thirteenth-century). Rabbi Ezra's text is a major component of his cl…

Moses Narboni’s fourteenth-century Hebrew commentary on Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed altered the landscape of Maimonidean thought and represented the growing movement of Jewish Averroism in Christian Europe. Averroes’ ideas shape broad swaths of Narboni’s commentary: they …

This project investigates challenges to the New Testament’s presentation of the Incarnation of the Son of God which derive from the theological and philosophical worldviews of Orthodox Judaism, namely those promoted by Maimonides and Kabbalah. Maimonides’s worldview entailed tha…