Asceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xvi, 648 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

James T. Robinson, PhD (2002) in NELC, Harvard University, is Associate Professor of the History of Judaism at The University of Chicago, The Divinity School. He has published extensively on medieval Jewish philosophy and exegesis, including Samuel ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes, The Book of the Soul of Man (Mohr Siebeck, 2007).

Readership

All those interested in medieval Jewish philosophy and exegesis, Judaeo-Arabic thought and literature, medieval intellectual history, the wisdom books of the Bible, the Karaites.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: Qohelet in Karaism
Chapter 2: On Salmon’s Arabic Translation of Qohelet
Chapter 3: Sources and Use of Sources
Chapter 4: Methods and Approaches
Chapter 5: Main Themes – Asceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy
Chapter 6: Description of the Manuscripts and Method of Editing
Chapter 7: Remarks on the English Translation
PART II: Salmon b. Yeroḥam’s Commentary on Qohelet – Critical Edition and English Translation

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