Introduction Cultural and Religious Traditions in Ninth-Century French Jewry by Robert Bonfil Kabbalistic and Gnostic Dualism by Joseph Dan The Beginning of Science Among the Jews of Spain by José María Millás Vallicrosa Political Philosophy and Halakhah in Maimonides by Warren Zev Harvey The "First Created Being" in Early Kabbalah: Philosophical and Ismailian Sources by Sara O. Heller Wilensky A German-Jewish Autobiography of the Fourteenth Century by Israel J. Yuval Rashi and the World Around Him by Yitzhak F. Baer Menahem Meiri's Attitude Toward Gentiles--Apologetics or Worldview? by Gerald J. Blidstein The Image of God as the Source of Man's Evil, According to the Maharal of Prague by Yoram Jacobson Kabbalistic Ethical Literature in Sixteenth-Century Safed by Mordechai Pachter The Influence of Spanish-Jewish Culture on the Jews of Ashkenaz and Poland in the Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries by Jacob Elbaum

Volume three of this exciting series focuses on Jewish intellectual history in the Middle Ages. The book provides a valuable resource for teaching this rich period in Jewish civilization on the undergraduate level.