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  • Edited by: Yoav Meyrav
  • Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Part of the multi-volume work
Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2020
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The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of visiting fellows, staff, and affiliates of the Maimonides Centre of Advanced Studies—Jewish Scepticism, Universität Hamburg. Its main section contains scholarly articles about Judaism and scepticism, both individually and together, among different thinkers and within different areas of study. Each volume of the Yearbook also includes a section with an overview of the activities and events conducted at MCAS during a given academic year, as well as a report on its library.

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Contents

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Editorial

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Part I: Articles
The Simultaneous Genesis of Monotheism and Scepticism in the Jewish Religion

Aryeh Botwinick
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Socratic Impulse, Secular Tendency, and Jewish Emancipation: A Comparison between Simone Luzzatto and Moses Mendelssohn

Michela Torbidoni
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The Theory of Aḥwāl and Arguments against the Law of Non-Contradiction

Behnam Zolghadr
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The Causes of Epochē: A Note on Stromateis 8.22.1–4

Máté Veres
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Meister Eckhart Reading Ibn Gabirol’s Fons vitae

Ze’ev Strauss
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Obadiah Sforno and the Individual Human Soul

Giada Coppola
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Arnold Geulincx: Scepticism and Mental Holism

José María Sánchez de León Serrano
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Spinoza’s Affective Scepticism

Avraham Rot
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What was Maimon After? His Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science in 1790

Timothy Franz
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Does Judaism Have Dogma? Moses Mendelssohn and a Pivotal Nineteenth-Century Debate

Michah Gottlieb
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From Scepticism to Tolerance of “the Other”: The Example of Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Anne Fiebig
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Jesuit Strategic Scepticism toward Religious Self-Consciousness and Commonalities: Chinese Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Eyes of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) and His “Translator” Nicolas Trigault (1557–1628)

Giuseppe Veltri
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Part II: Reports
Activities and Events

Maria Wazinski
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Report on the Library of Jewish Scepticism

Silke Schaeper
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eBook published on:
May 5, 2020
eBook ISBN:
9783110618839
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May 5, 2020
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9783110603323
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110618839
eBook ISBN: 9783110618839
Paperback ISBN: 9783110603323
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