Front Cover -- History of Jewish Philosophy -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1. What is Jewish philosophy?: Daniel H.Frank -- I. Foundations and first principles -- 2. The Bible as a source for philosophical reflection: Shalom Carmy and David Shatz -- 3. Hellenistic Jewish philosophy: David Winston -- 4. The Talmud as a source for philosophical reflection: David Novak -- II. Medieval Jewish philosophy -- 5. The nature of medieval Jewish philosophy: Alexander Broadie -- 6. The Islamic social and cultural context: Steven M.Wasserstrom -- 7. Kalam in medieval Jewish philosophy: Haggai Ben-Shammai -- 8. Medieval Jewish Neoplatonism: T.M.Rudavsky -- 9. Judah Halevi: Lenn E.Goodman -- 10. Medieval Jewish Aristotelianism: an introduction: Norbert M.Samuelson -- 11. Moses Maimonides: Howard Kreisel -- 12. Maimonides and Aquinas: Alexander Broadie -- 13. The social and cultural context: thirteenth to fifteenth centuries: Marc Saperstein -- 14. The Maimonidean controversy: Idit Dobbs-Weinstein -- 15. Hebrew philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: an overview: Charles H.Manekin -- 16. Levi ben Gershom (Gersonides): Seymour Feldman -- 17. Chasdai Crescas: Daniel J.Lasker -- 18. Medieval and Renaissance Jewish political philosophy: Abraham Melamed -- 19. Jewish mysticism: a philosophical overview: Elliot R.Wolfson -- 20. Jewish philosophy on the eve of modernity: Hava Tirosh-Rothschild -- III. Modern Jewish philosophy -- 21. The nature of modern Jewish philosophy: Ze'ev Levy -- 22. The social and cultural context: seventeenth-century Europe: Elisheva Carlebach -- 23. The Jewish community of Amsterdam: Richard H.Popkin -- 24. Spinoza: Seymour Feldman.

25. The social and cultural context: eighteenth-century Enlightenment: Lois C.Dubin -- 26. Mendelssohn: Michael L.Morgan -- 27. Nineteenth-century German Reform philosophy: Mordecai Finley -- 28. The ideology of Wissenschaft des Judentums: David N.Myers -- 29. Samson Raphael Hirsch: Harry Lesser -- 30. Traditional reactions to modern Jewish Reform: the paradigm of German Orthodoxy: David Ellenson -- IV. Contemporary Jewish philosophy -- 31. Jewish nationalism: Ze'ev Levy -- 32. Zionism: Ze'ev Levy -- 33. Jewish neo-Kantianism: Hermann Cohen: Kenneth Seeskin -- 34. Jewish existentialism: Rosenzweig, Buber, and Soloveitchik: Oliver Leaman -- 35. Leo Strauss: Kenneth Hart Green -- 36. The Shoah: Steven T.Katz -- 37. Postmodern Jewish philosophy: Richard A.Cohen -- 38. Jewish feminist thought: Judith Plaskow -- 39. The future of Jewish philosophy: Oliver Leaman -- Index of names -- Index of terms.