Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon

Index

Index A Abravanel, Don Isaac, 23, 28, 50, 51, 53, 54, 84, 89, 186, 217 Rosh Amanah, 89, 90, 121, 146-148,227 Abravenel, Judah, 50 Abraham, ben David (Rabad), 144, 153-154 Abulafia, Abraham, 37 Active InteHect, the, I 10, I 18, 174, 179, 182, 220 Aderbi, Isaac, 83, 171 Aggadah, 37-38 AI'ami, Shlomo, 87 Albalag, Isaac, 84, 164 Albo, Joseph, 84, 85, 121, 147, 149-150, 152,205,217 Alchemy, 16,37,47,233 Alemanno, Yohanan, 29, 35, 36, 37, 42,47,48,49,51,74 Alexander, of Aphrodisias, 84 Alfarabi, 84, 109, !l0, 174, 202 Isaac, Alfasi, 19, 2I, 36 Aighazali, 30, 37 Alkabe~, Shlomo, 83, 171, 23 I Ammoraim, 7I Analogical predication, 194 Analogy, between God and humans, 199 Anatoli, Jacob, 17, 36, 119 'Arama, Isaac, 84, 85, 88, 121, 186, 227 Aquinas, Saint Thomas, 84, 94, 106, 109, 114, 120, 124, 126-127, 131, 186,235-236 and Maimonides, I 14-I 19, 200 and Jewish philosophers, 119-121 harmonization of reason and faith, I 14-I20 on God's existence, 188-I92, 194-197 on divine attributes, 203-204 Quaestiones de Veritate, 217 Summa Contra Gentiles, 19I, 226 Summa The%giae, I 15, 139, 188, 191, 22 I, 224, 226 Aristotelian philosophy, 26, 93, 168, 198, 233 corpus, 16 Jewish philosophers, 6-7 Aristotelianism, 8, 39, 41-44, 114 Jewish, 233, 237 medieval, 88, 128, 207, 237, 238 377 378 Index Renaissance, 39, 233 Aristotle, 68, 73, 84, 88, 94, 108, 110, 117, 118, 148, 163, 189,218 Rhetoric, 36 Organnon, 36 Physics, 37,191 Metaphysics, 37, 190 Asher ben Yehiel, 36, 62 Ashkenazic, Jews, 12, 27-28, 234 halakhah, 29, 52 communities, 19, 22 Ashkenazim, 42-104 and Sephardim, 20, 21, 83, 234 Astrology, 16,37,47,224,229,233 Astronomy, 16, 36, 83, 229 Augustine, Saint (see also Church Fathers), 50, 70 Averroes (ibn Rushd), 31, 36, 37, 42,84,92,96, 182, 191-192, 194-195,196,197,204,214,215 Averroism, 10,29,41-43, 191-192, 196 Avicenna (ibn Sina), 33, 84, 172, 182,191-195,196,197 'Azaria de Rossi, 18 B Banking, Jewish (see also Moneylending), 12-14, 19, 32, 46 Bar Hiyya, Abraham, 36 Bayezid II, Sultan, 54, 58 Bedersi, Yedayah, 84 Benjamin, of Montalcino, 23-24, 28 Bibago, Abraham, 84, 85, 88, 89, 121-123, 140, 146-148, 159, 171, 186,192,205,217,227,235 Biblical exegesis, 5, 29, 119 Boccaccio, 73, 74, 233 Boethius, 73 c Calonimus, ben Calonimus, 26 Cappa, 79 Capsali, Elijah, 40, 57, 58 Capsali, Moses, 6,55,57,58,61, 78, 79, 80 Causes, efficient, 172, 189-190, 195, 196, 200 final,200 formal, 195,200 hierarchy of, 190 material, 200 Charles VIII, King of France, 5, 33, 53,54 Chosen People, the, 73, 185, 218, 226 Christianity, dogmas of, 113-114, 134 Church Fathers, the, 50, 70, 72, 92 Cicero, 31, 33,68,73 City-states, Italian, 13, 15, 45, 53 Commandments, of Judaism, rational, 141-142 practical, 141-142, 153, 157 observance of, 142, 152 Condotta, 12-13 Conversion (to Christianity), 11, 135, 145 Conversos, 87, 120, 145 Cordovero, Moses, 83, 232 Cosmology, 161-163, 170, 171, 188 Creation, dogma of, 147, 165-166 biblical account of, 166-168 ex nihi!o, 9, 94, 160-164, 168, 171-173, 182-183, 185, 187,210 Crescas, Hasdai, 7, 37, 84, 85, 87, 88, 147, 152, 165, 200, 204, 206 D Da Pisa, family, 28, 46-47, 65 Yehiel, 4, 46, 65 David, ben Joab of Tivoli, 28, 38, 46, 48, 62 David, ben Judah Messer Leon, and Renaissance humanism 135-136 ' defense of Maimonides, 90-99 education, 35-38 place and date of birth, 34 in Constantinople, 61-63, 78-80 in Florence, 44-48 in Salonika, 80-85, 91 in Padua, 40-42 in Valona, 34, 99-104 interpretation of Kabbalah 136-137,171,213-217,234, 237-238 indebtedness to Aquinas, 8, 94, 106, 121-131, 136, 139, 185, 189, 196-199,203-207,222,235-236 Shevah ha-Nashim, 6, 46, 59, 60, 62,74-77 Ein ha-Oore, 6, 53, 84, 85, 91, 180, 184, 196, 231 Kevod Hakhamim, 6, 100-104 Magen David, 8, 41, 48,52,54, 63,64, 122, 196,207,211,214, 231, 232 Tehillah Ie-David, 8, 9, 104, 131, 139, 140, 160, 184, 186-187, 197, 198,207-208,211,214,221, 224-225...