Publisher's description:
Gersonides—Rabbi Levi ben Gershom (Provence, 1288–1344)—was a multifaceted thinker. Endowed with his original and critical mind, he did not accept the authority of his predecessors but investigated every matter for himself. His extraordinary attention to method—both of inquiry and of writing—stands out clearly in his own work and in his reading of certain biblical books. The eight articles on Gersonides’ thought and method collected in this volume address four main topics: Gersonides’ methods of inquiry and composition; the use of introductions in his own works and in biblical books; his method in the supercommentaries on Averroes; and his methods of biblical exegesis.

Table of contents:
Introduction: “Without any Doubt”
The Opinions that Produce the Aporias in the Wars of the Lord
The Solutions of the Aporias in the Wars of the Lord
Dialectic in Gersonides’ Commentary on Proverbs
The Alexandrian Prologue Paradigm in Gersonides’ Writings
The Introductions to the Bible Commentaries
Gersonides as Commentator on Averroes
Determinism, Contingency, Free Choice, and Foreknowledge in Gersonides
Gersonides on the Mode of Communicating Knowledge of the Future to the Dreamer and Clairvoyant