Originally publishes in BSOAS 46:2 (1983), p. 338-9. Jacob J. Staub: The creation of the world according to Gersonides. (Brown Judaic Studies, 24.) xii, 422 pp. Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1982. Levi ben Gershon, or Gersonides (1288-1344), generally considered to be the leading philosophical successor to the great Maimonides, was undoubtedly the boldest of the medieval Jewish…
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