I. Introduction
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II. Philo of Alexandria
(Please note: the below links are easily accessible via Prof. Torrey's webpage here:
On the Creation (pdf file from Hendrickson.)
David T. Runia, Philo, Alexandrian and Jew from Idem, Exegesis and Philosophy: Studies on Philo of Alexandria (Variorum, Aldershot, 1990), pp. 1-18.
David T. Runia, How to read Philo from Idem, Exegesis and Philosophy.. Studies on Philo of. Alexandria (Variorum, Aldershot, 1990), pp. 185-198.
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III. Saadia Gaon
Saadia Gaon, The Book of Doctrines and Beliefs. Hackett 2002. (also in: Three Jewish Philosophers: Philo, Saadya Gaon, Yehuda Halevy (Paperback))
IV. Judah Halevy
The Kuzari
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V. Maimonides
Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed
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VI. The Maimonidean Controversies
Bernard Septimus, Hispano-Jewish Culture in Transition
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VII. The Question of Esotericism
Halbertal, Moses. Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and Its Philosophical Implications
VIII. Jewish Maskilim of the High Middle Ages
Twersky, Isadore. "Joseph ibn Kaspi: Portrait of a Medieval Jewish Intellectual," in Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature, ed. I Twersky. Harvard, 1973.
IX. Jewish Philosophical Polemic Against Christianity
Lasker, Daniel J. Jewish Philosophical Polemics against Christianity in the Middle Ages.
X. The Conservative Critique of Jewish Aristotelianism
Selections from Shem Tov ibn Shem Tov, Hasdai Crescas, Isaac Abravanel
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XI. Spinoza and the Undermining of the Rational Judaism
Spinoza, The Theological-Political Treatise, 2nd ed. Trans. Samuel Shirley.
XII. Mendelssohn and Judaism as Rational Religion
Moses Mendelssohn, Jerusalem (Part II)
XII. The Jewish Haskalah and Its Critics
Maimon, Solomon Autobiography
XIII. Hermann Cohen's Rationalism and Its Critics
Selections from Religion of Reason