More than any other topic, prophecy represents the point at which
the Divine meets the human, the Absolute meets the relative. How
can a human being attain the Word of God? In what manner does God,
when conceived as eternal and transcendent, address corporeal,
transitory creatures? What happens to God's divine Truth when it is
beheld by minds limited in their power to apprehend, and influenced
by the intellectual currents of their time and place? How were
these issues viewed by the great Jewish philosophers of the past,
who took the divine communication and all it entails seriously,
while at the same time desired to understand it as much as humanly
possible in the course of dealing with a myriad of other issues
that occupied their attention?
This book offers an in-depth study of prophecy in the thought of
seven of the leading medieval Jewish philosophers: R. Saadiah Gaon,
R. Judah Halevi, Maimonides, Gersonides, R. Hasdai Crescas, R.
Joseph Albo and Baruch Spinoza. It attempts to capture the original
voice' of these thinkers by looking at the intellectual milieus in
which they developed their philosophies, and by carefully analyzing
their views in their textual contexts. It also deals with the
relation between the earlier approaches and the later ones.
Overall, this book presents a significant model for narrating the
history of an idea.
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