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
Sujects