Crescas: Light of the Lord (Or Hashem): Translated with introduction and notes

This text is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas’s Light of the Lord, a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy. In it Crescas challenges Maimonides and the Aristotelian underpinnings of medieval thought, introduces alternative physical and metaphysical theories, and reinstates the classical Jewish God as a God of love rather than a self-intellecting intellect.