Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Biblical Literature 9
7. Philo of Alexandria 23
8. Titus Flavius Josephus 37
9. Rabbinic Literature 51
10. Baḥya Ibn Paquda 65
11. Solomon Ibn Gabirol 81
12. Maimonides 97
13. Elazar of Worms 111
14. Naḥmanides 123
15. The Zohar 137
16. Gersonides 149
17. Ḥasdai Crescas 163
18. Joseph Albo 173
19. Isaac Arama 185
20. Moses Cordovero 199
21. Baruch Spinoza 213
22. Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto 227
23. Moses Mendelssohn 241
24. Menaḥem Mendel Lefin 255
25. Ḥayyim of Volozhin 269
26. Naḥman of Bratslav 283
27. Isaac Bekhor Amarachi 297
28. Israel Salanter 311
29. Simḥah Zissel Ziv 325
30. Hermann Cohen 337
31. Abraham Isaac Kook 353
32. Martin Buber 369
33. Mordecai Kaplan 383
34. Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler 395
35. Joseph Soloveitchik 409
36. Hannah Arendt 425
37. Emmanuel Levinas 441
38. Abraham Joshua Heschel 455
39. Jewish Feminism 469
40. Jewish Environmentalism 483
41. Afterword 497
42. Contributors 503
43. Index 511