Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, Volume I,

Isadore Twersky

    1. Creation and Emanation in Isaac Israeli: A Reappraisal
    Alexander Altmann

    2. Maimonides' Secret Position on Creation
    Herbert Davidson

    3. Rabbinical Authority and Authorization in the Middle Ages
    Jacob Katz

    4. Some Medieval and Renaissance Hebrew Writings on the Poetry of the Bible
    James L. Kugel

    5. The Limitations of Human Knowledge according to Al-Farabi, ibn Bajja, and Maimonides
    Shiomo Pines

    6. The Autobiography of Obadyah the Norman, a Convert to Judaism at the Time of the First Crusade
    Joshua Prawer

    7. The Prohibition against Jewish Printing and Publishing in Venice and the Difficulties of Leone Modena
    Benjamin Ravid

    8. Bahya ibn Paquda's Attitude toward the Courtier Class
    Bezalel Safran

    9. Piety and Power in Thirteenth-Century Catalonia
    Bernard Septimus

    10. Joseph ibn Kaspi: Portrait of a Medieval Jewish Intellectual
    Isadore Twersky

    NOTES AND DOCUMENTS

    11. An Unpublished Sermon of R. Joshua ibn Shu'eib
    Carmi Y. Horowitz

    12. The Earliest Commentary on the Midrash Rabbah
    Marc Saperstein

    13. Jews "Separated from the Communion of the Faithful in Christ" in the Middle Ages
    Joseph Shatzmiller

    14. An Excerpt from the Abot Commentary of R. Mattathias ha-Yizhari
    Michael A. Shmidman

    15. The Francesc de Sant Jordi-Solomon Bonafed Letters
    Frank Talmage

    Index

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Isadore Twersky was Nathan Littauer Professor of Jewish History and Philosophy at Harvard University.