04459nam 2200769Ia 450 991096421140332120240417040206.097807914932500791493253(CKB)2670000000233703(EBL)3408076(SSID)ssj0000607776(PQKBManifestationID)11382169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607776(PQKBWorkID)10585235(PQKB)10326689(OCoLC)794701361(MdBmJHUP)muse14093(Au-PeEL)EBL3408076(CaPaEBR)ebr10587275(DE-B1597)682384(DE-B1597)9780791493250(MiAaPQ)EBC3408076(Perlego)2673121(EXLCZ)99267000000023370319991206d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTime matters time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy /T.M. RudavskyAlbany, N.Y. State University of New York Pressc20001 online resource (308 p.)SUNY series in Jewish PhilosophySUNY series in Jewish philosophyDescription based upon print version of record.9780791444542 0791444546 9780791444535 0791444538 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-275) and index.""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Illustration""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem""; ""Introduction""; ""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""; ""Conclusion""; ""Time, Creation, and Cosmology""; ""Introduction""; ""Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed""""Creation Models in Maimonides""""Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides""; ""Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas""; ""Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation""; ""Conclusion""; ""Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno""; ""Introduction""; ""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""""Conclusion""; ""Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience""; ""Introduction""; ""The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox""; ""Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom""; ""Maimonides' Compatibilism""; ""Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud""; ""Omni science and Human Freedom in Gersonides""; ""Indeterminism and Prophecy""; ""The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on T)ivine Knowledge and Possibility""; ""Conclusion""; ""Prelude to Modernity""; ""Introduction""; ""Newton and His Philosophical Precursors""""Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism""""Time, Duration, and Creation: Spinoza and Descartes Compared""; ""Substance, Infinity, and Divisibility in Spinoza""; ""The Role Played by Imagination""; ""Spinoza on Divine Omniscience and Contingency""; ""Conclusion""; ""Back Matter""; ""Conclusion: Eternity a parte post, Individuation, and Immortality""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""Back Cover""Traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in medieval Jewish philosophy.SUNY Series in Jewish PhilosophyCreationHistory of doctrinesJewish cosmologyJewish philosophyPhilosophy, MedievalTimeCreationHistory of doctrines.Jewish cosmology.Jewish philosophy.Philosophy, Medieval.Time.113/.089/924Rudavsky Tamar1951-1605222MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910964211403321Time matters4363999UNINA