Engaging Crescas
Introduction
We are delighted to present this issue of the Journal of Textual Reasoning (JTR), which features distinguished scholars examining Hasdai Crescas’s work as a resource for contemporary Jewish thought. The issue is occasioned by Roslyn Weiss’s important new translation of Crescas’s under-appreciated masterpiece, Light of the Lord (Or Hashem), the first complete translation of this text into English.
Crescas Among the Textual Reasoners
Mark Randall James
Crescas and Scripture
Hasdai Crescas's Philosophical Biblical Exegesis
Roslyn Weiss
The Inexhaustible Metaphor of Light: Illuminating the Fault Lines Between Crescas and Maimonides
James A. Diamond
Crescas and Philosophy
Four Critiques of Crescas against Maimonides and the Relationship of Intellect and Practice in Religion
Alexander Green
Thinking with Crescas
R. Ḥasdai Crescas and the Concept of Motivation in Modern Psychology and the Philosophy of Education
Esti Eisenmann
Crescas on Time, Space, and Infinity
Tamar Rudavsky
Reading Crescas
Wolfson's Pragmatic Crescas
Warren Zev Harvey