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Table of Contents

by Abraham Joshua Heschel

A PASSION FOR TRUTH
ISRAEL: AN ECHO OF ETERNITY
THE INSECURITY OF FREEDOM
WHO IS MAN?
THE SABBATH
THE EARTH IS THE LORDS
MANS QUEST FOR GOD
GOD IN SEARCH OF MAN
THE PROPHETS
MAN IS NOT ALONE
ABRAVANEL

THE QUEST FOR CERTAINTY IN SAADIAS PHILOSOPHY
THEOLOGY OF ANCIENT JUDAISM [two volumes]

ABBREVIATIONS

EDI	Enzyklopdie des Islam
EJ	Encyclopaedia Judaica
JQR	The Jewish Quarterly Review
K	Kobez, ed. Lichtenberg
MGWJ	Monatsschrift fr Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums
MN	More Nevukhim (Warsaw, 1872)
MT	Mishneh Torah
P	Commentary on the Mishnah
R	Responsa, ed. Freidmann (Jerusalem, 1934)
REJ	Revue des Etudes Juives
SB	Sammelbuch Moses ben Maimon
SP	Introduction by Abot (eight chapters)
ZDMG	Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlndischen Gesellschaft
ZFHB	Zeitschrift fr Hebrische Bibliographie

In the original (1935) German edition, the translations by A. Weiss (Leipzig, 1923); M. Wolff, (Leiden, 1903); and M. Rawicz (Offenburg, 1910) were frequently used.

1 Life in Exile

A. Mller, Der Islam im Morgen und Abendland, II, 640ff; EDI I, 330ff.

Goldzieher, Materialien zur Kenntnis der Almohadenbewegung in Nordafrika, ZDMG 41, 67ff.

This is evident from Maimons epistle ( Chemda Genusa, Lebanon, 8, and JQR II) and Maimonides (K II, 12ff.).

EJ 6, 965.

Goldzieher, ZDMG 41, 67ff.

Juchassin, ed. Philippowski, p. 219.

14th of Nissan = 30th of March, after 1 p.m., 1135, in Cordova.

2 In Fez

Eppenstein, Abraham Maimuni, p. 59.

Dozy, Geschichte der Mauren in Spanien, II, 394.

MN III, 24.

MN III, 49.

K II, 37d.

Toledano, Ner Hamaarab, p. 34; Misrach umaarab, IV, 266.

Kremer, Kulturgeschichte des Orients, II, 447ff.

E. Mittwoch, Ein Geniza-Fragment, ZDMG 57, 61ff.

A. Mller, Der Islam, p. 651.

See Chemda Genusa, p. LXXIX.

See Schreiner, Samaual b. Jahj al-Magribi und seine Schrift Ifh al-Jahd, MGWJ 42, 123ff.

SP 5.

MN I, 33.

MN I, 34.

MN II, 9. 24; see MT Kiddush, Hachodesh XVII, 25.

SP 5.

SP 5; MN III, 19.

K II, 25.

Kremer, Kulturgeschichte, II, 461.

P on Chelek, ed. Holzer, p. 20.

P on Abot V, 21.

K II, 12c.

E. Mittwoch, ZDMG 57, 61ff.

SP I.

3 Prophecy

Rosin, Ethik des Maimonides, pp. 10ff.

K II, 28d. The authenticity of this passage is no longer debated; see Eppenstein in SB, II, 49.

The speculation about prophecy occupied a major position in Islamic thought. However, the central position of the epistemological reflection upon prophecy in Maimonidess philosophy can be explained neither by its polemical, its apologetic, nor its Jewish-dogmatic significance.

Introduction to P, ed. Hamburger, p. II; P to Chelek, ed. Holzer, p. 24; SP i and 5.

Foreword to MN.

SP 7; introduction to P, ed. Hamburger, p. 7.

Introduction to P, ed. Hamburger, pp. 45ff.

Source for the following: introduction to P, pp. 50ff.

MN I, 73, tenth thesis. For the following cf. C. Diesendruck, The Teleologie bei Maimonides (Cincinnati, 1928), p. 426, A. 28.

Introduction to P, p. 49.

P on Abot V, 12.

K II, s. 29d, after Rosin: Ethik des Maimonides, p. 127; Munk, Notice sur Joseph ben Jehouda, p. 46; and Toledano, Ner Hamaarab, p. 225. Maimonides assumed that Ibn Aknin, who lived in Ceuta, knew about these discussions.

SP 4.

P to Abot IV, 23.

Millot, Hahiggajon, XIV.

K II, 13b, and so on.

SP 4.

SP 4.

Introduction to P, ed. Hamburger, p. 53.

4 The Model

K I, p. 12c.

P on Shabbat XXIII, 2; cf. MT Shabbath XXIII, 19, and Karo.

Introduction to P.

Introduction to P, ed. Hamburger, p. 60.

P to Mikvaot IV, 4.

5 Respect for Israel

P to Berachot IX; source for the following: K II, 12ff.

6 Journey to Palestine

. K II, 15a.

Chemda Genusa, p. 30; REJ, IV, 174.

Kremer, Kulturgeschichte, II, 437.

REJ IV, 174.

Mez, Die Renaissance des Islams, p. 473.

K I, 34a.

Concluding remark on P, ed. Derenbourg.

SP 4.

SB I, III.

SP 4.

P on Abot IV, 4.

P on Abot IV, 4; K II, 24a; see Josef ben Jehuda, Sepher Musar, ed. Bacher, on Abot IV, 4.

K II, v.

Rhricht, Geschichte des Konigreichs Jesusalem, p. 314.

Prutz, Kulturgeschichte der Kreuzzge, p. 104.

Henne am Rhyn, Kulturgeschichte der Kreuzzge, pp. 187ff.

Prutz, Kulturgeschichte der Kreuzzge, p. 323.

K I, 7c.

R, no. 99.

P on Sota II, 4.

P on Para III, 9.

P on Berachot II, 4; P on Erubin VII.

P on Tohorot.

K II, 23f.

K I, 14b; Geiger, Moses ben Maimon, p. 7a (Hebrew).

MN III, 45.

Graetz, Geschichte der Juden, VI, 134.

Prutz, Kulturgeschichte der Kreuzzge, pp. 119 and 123.

MT Deot VI, I.

MT Deot VI, I.

J. Guttmann, ber Abraham bar Chijjas Buch der Enthllung, MGWJ 47, 450.

Prutz, Kulturgeschichte, p. 100.

Prutz, Kulturgeschichte, p. 316.

R, no. 159.

Prutz, Kulturgeschichte, p. 134.

Poznanski, Babylonische Geonim, p. 96.

K II, p. V.

Prutz, Kulturgeschichte, p. 48.

P to Kellim XV, I, ed. Derenbourg.

7 Fight Against Assimilation

After Rhricht, Geschichte des Konigreichs Jerusalem, p. 330, and Benjamin.

Al-Harizi, see Geiger, Nachgelassene Schriften, III, 240.

See also letter to Joseph in Birkat Abraham, ed. Goldberg.

P to Avot IV, 6.

Concluding remark to P.

D. Kaufmann, Juda Halewi und seine gyptischen Freunde, MGWJ 40, 420ff.

The term was coined by David Koigen.

Rhricht, Geschichte des Knigreichs Jerusalem, pp. 328ff.

Mann, The Jews in Egypt, II, 288f.

R, no. 162 and 178.

K I, 35c ff.

K I, 17b.

P to Abot I, 3; see R, no. 46.

Asulai, Schem Haggdolim, see Maimonides.

8 In Fostat

Since the Mishnah commentary was apparently concluded in Fostat (see concluding remark to P), the removal probably took place before 1168.

D. Kaufmann, Juda Halewi und seine gyptischen Freunde, MGWJ 40, 420.

Source for the portrayal of the Sutta affair: Scroll about Sutta, Hashiloach, XV, 175ff.

Concluding remark to P, ed. Derenbourg.

Introduction to Chelek, ed. Holzer, pp. 29ff.

P to Berachot IV.

K II, 10b.

Rhricht, Geschichte des Knigreichs Jerusalem, p. 338.

EDI I, 855.

Goldzieher, Vorlesungen ber den Islam, pp. 209, 211.

C. H. Becker, Islamstudien, I, 191ff.

Rhricht, Geschichte des Knigreichs Jerusalem, pp. 350ff.

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