Preface

I. The Gnostic Background of the Rabbinic Adam Legends\\
2. Creation and Emanation in Isaac Israeli: A Reappraisal\\
3. Free Will and Predestination in Saadia, Baḥya, and Maimonides\\
4. Maimonides's "Four Perfections"\\
5. Maimonides and Thomas Aquinas: Natural or Divine Prophecy?\\
6. //Ars Rhetorica// as Reflected in Some Jewish Figures of the Italian Renaissance\\
7. [[Moses Mendelssohn]]'s Proofs for the Existence of God\\
8. [[Moses Mendelssohn]] on Miracles\\
9. The Philosophical Roots of Mendelssohn's Plea for Emancipation\\
10. Mendelssohn on Excommunication: The Ecclesiastical Law Background\\
11. The New Style of Preaching in Nineteenth-Century German Jewry\\
12. Franz Rosenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy: An Introduction to Their "Letters on Judaism & Christianity"\\
13. Theology in Twentieth-Century German Jewry\\
14. Leo Baeck and Jewish Mystical Tradition

Acknowledgments
Indexes\\
Names\\
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