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Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (Catalan: [həzˈðaj ˈβeɲ ʒuˈða ˈkɾeskəs]; Hebrew: חסדאי קרשקש; c. 1340 in Barcelona – 1410/11 in Zaragoza) was a Spanish-Jewish philosopher and a renowned halakhist (teacher of Jewish law).
Jan 4, 2012 · Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (ca. 1340–1410/11) was the head of the Jewish community of Aragon, and in some ways all of Hispanic Jewry, during one of its most critical periods. Crescas was one of the leading rabbinic authorities of his time, [ 1 ] the political leader of the Jews of Aragon, and a philosophical polemicist against Christianity.
Ḥasdai ben Abraham Crescas (born 1340, Barcelona?—died 1410, Saragossa, Spain) was a Spanish philosopher, Talmudic scholar, and critic of the Aristotelian rationalist tradition in Jewish thought, who became the crown rabbi of Aragon. A merchant and Jewish communal leader in Barcelona (1367), Crescas became closely associated with the royal ...
Ḥasdai Crescas. The Spanish Jewish thinker Ḥasdai ben Abraham Crescas (1340–1410), like Gersonides, had thorough knowledge of Jewish philosophy and partial knowledge of Islamic philosophy; in both areas he seems to have been influenced by Christian Scholastic thought.
Hasdai ben Abraham Crescas (c. 1340 - 1411) was a Jewish philosopher, theologian, and a renowned "halakhist" (teacher of Jewish law). During the catastrophic period of Spanish-Jewish history between 1391 and 1492, Hasdai Crescas wrote a treatise, Or Adonai ( Light of the Lord, written in 1410, and printed in Ferrara in 1555) seeking to define ...
Mar 2, 2014 · 165 - Neither the Time Nor the Place: Hasdai Crescas. Ḥasdai Crescas shows Aristotelian physics who’s boss, by defending alternative conceptions of time, place and infinity. • R. Weiss (trans.), Ḥasdai Crescas: Light of the Lord (Or Hashem) (Oxford: 2018).
Jan 1, 2020 · Biographical Information. Hasdai ben Judah Crescas (c. 1340–1410/1411) is the last outstanding original Jewish philosopher in the late medieval period. Although Crescas had no interest in science per se, he was embroiled in precisely the same set of scientific issues that occupied scholastic philosophers after the condemnation of 1277.
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