Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought -- Part One Modern Fascinations -- Chapter One "Medieval" and the Politics of Nostalgia: Ideology, Scholarship, and the Creation of the Rational Jew -- Chapter Two On the Possibility of a Hidden Christian Will: Methodological Pitfalls in the Study of Medieval Jewish Philosophy -- Chapter Three Lessing in Jerusalem: Modern Religion, Medieval Orientalism, and the Idea of Perfection -- Part Two Manipulations -- Chapter Four R. Abraham Isaac Kook and Maimonides: A Contemporary Mystic's Embrace of Medieval Rationalism -- Chapter Five On Myth, History, and the Study of Hasidism: Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem -- Chapter Six What S. Y. Agnon Taught Gershom Scholem About Jewish History -- Chapter Seven Constructed and Denied: "The Talmud" from the Brisker Rav to the Mishneh Torah -- Part Three Specters of Strauss -- Chapter Eight Escaping the Scholastic Paradigm: The Dispute Between Strauss and His Contemporaries About How to Aproach Islamic and Jewish Medieval Philosophy -- Chapter Nine Justifying Philosophy and Restoring Revelation: Assessing Strauss's Medieval Return -- Part Four Venturing Beyond -- Chapter Ten Echo of the Otherwise: Ethics of Transcendence and the Lure of Theolatry -- Index.