%0 Book %T Gersonides' afterlife: studies on the reception of Levi ben Gerson's philosophical, Halakhic and scientific oeuvre in the 14th through 20th centuries %E Eliʾor, ʿOfer %E Freudenthal, Gad %E Wirmer, David %S Studies in Jewish history and culture 62 %D 2020 %I Brill %C Leiden %@ 9789004425286 %G English %F 1725064901 %O edited by Ofer Elior, Gad Freudenthal, David Wirmer ; with a liminary note by Reimund Leicht %O Papers from a conference held 17-19 February 2014 at the University of Geneva %O Includes bibliographical references and index %X Part 1.The reception of Gersonides' philosophical and Halakhic oeuvre."Composition, not commentary" : Gersonides' commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry and its afterlife /Charles H. Manekin --The supercommentaries of Gersonides and his students on Averroes's epitomes of the Physics and the Meteorology /Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine --Crescas' relationship to Gersonides /Warren Zev Harvey --From denunciation to appreciation : Gersonides in the eyes of members of the Ibn Shem Ṭov family /Doron Forte --Gersonides and his Sephardic critics /Seymour Feldman --A fifteenth-century reader of Gersonides : Don Isaac Abravanel, providence, astral influences, active intellect, and humanism /Cedric Cohen-Skalli and Oded Horezky --Gersonides' philosophy in fifteenth-century Byzantium : Shabbetai ben Malkiel ha-Kohen's defense of Averroes's theory of material intellect /Ofer Elior --Gersonides' reception in the Ashkenazi yradition / Tamás Visi --The Karaite reception of Gersonides /Daniel J. Lasker --Gersonides' Biblical commentaries in a fifteenth-century Slavic translation of the Bible /Moshe Taube --Gersonides' responsa and their reception /Pinchas Roth --Part 2.The reception of Gersonides' astronomical and astrological oeuvre.The lunar cycle of 11,325 Days /José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein --The afterlife of Gersonides' cross-staff and of the poem dedicated to it /Gad Freudenthal --Violas de Rodez' political prognostication for the year 1355 : reaction to the prognostications for 1345-1355? /Hagar Kahana-Smilansky --Part 3.Printing and Reading Histories.The reception history of Gersonides' writings, according to their early printing history (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) /Zeev Gries --Gersonides Hebraicus atque Latinus : some remarks on Levi ben Gershom's works and the reading and book-collecting cultures of the Renaissance /Michela Andreatta --Censoring/"improving" Gersonides : the case of the Toʻalot /Menachem Kellner --Part 4.Gersonides' oeuvre in nineteenth-century Germany.Rabbi Abraham Nager and Ludwig Philippson--the revisor and sponsor of the Leipzig edition of Gersonides' Milḥamot Ha-Shem (1866) : the Wissenschaft des Judentums and Orientalistik in nineteenth-century Germany (a case study) /Gad Freudenthal --The rediscovery of Gersonides as a religious philosopher by the Wissenschaft des Judentums (1860-1890) /George Y. Kohler --Benzion Kellermann's German translation of Gersonides' Milḥamot ha-Shem (1914-1916) : the history of a scholarly failure /Torsten Lattki --Part 5.Late repercussions of Gersonides' oeuvre.Notes on Gersonides' place in religious-Zionist thought /Dov Schwartz. %L 11.29 %K Influence %K Jewish philosophy %K Conference papers and proceedings %9 Text %9 Konferenzschrift %R 10.1163/9789004425286 %U https://brill.com/content/books/10.1163/9789004425286 %U https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004425286