Crescas: Light of the Lord (Or Hashem)

This volume is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas''s Light of the Lord. Light of the Lord is widely acknowledged as a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy and second in importance only to Maimonides'' Guide of the Perplexed. Crescas takes on not only Maimonides but, through him, Aristotle, and challenges views of physics and metaphysics that had become entrenched in me...