List of contributors Preface Chronology Note on transliteration Glossary PART I BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT 1 Introduction to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy -　OLIVER LEAMAN 2 The biblical and rabbinic background to medieval jewish philosophy DAVID SHATZ 3 The islamic context of mediveal Jewish philoxophy JOEL L. RAEMER PART II IDEAS, WORKS, AND WRITERS 4 Saadya and Jewish kalam SARAH STROUMSA 5 Jewish Neoplatonism: Being above Being and divine emanation in Solomon ibn 　-Gabirol and Isacc Israeli SARAH PESSIN 6 Judah Halevi and his use of philosophy in the kuzari BARRY S. KOGAN 7 Maimonides and medieval jewisth Aristotelianism DANIEL H. FRANK 8 maimonides and the sciences TZVI LANGERMANN 9 Medieval Jewish political thought MENACHEM LORBERAUM 10 Judaism and Sufism PAUL B. FENTON 11 Philosophy and kabbalah: 1200-1600 HAVA TIROSH-SAMUELSON 12 Arabic into Hebrew: The Hebrew translation movement and the influence of Averroes upon medieval jewish thought STEVEN HARVEY 13 Philosophy in southern France: Controversy over Philosophic study and the influence of Averroes upon Jewish thought GREGG STERN 14 Conservative tendencies in Gersonides' religio9us philoxophy PART III THE LATER YEARS GHARLES H. MANEKIN 15 The impact of scholasticism upon jewish philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries T.M.RUDAVSKY 16 Jewish philosophy and the jewish-Christain philosophical dialogue in fifteenth-cetury Spain ARI ACKERMAN …… Guide to further reading in English Index