Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera /

• Main Author: Roberts-Zauderer, Dianna Lynn (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Medieval philosophy.; Judaism-Doctrines.; Literature, Medieval.; Medieval Philosophy.; Jewish Theology.; Medieval Literature.

This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. "Human Language": Classifying Metaphor in Jewish Sources
• 3. "Taste and See": Imagination and Intellect
• 4. Transmission
• 5. Shem Tov ibn Falaquera and the Iberian 'Afterlife' of Maimonides' Guide
• 6. "No Share in Poetry:" The Ethics of Figurative Language
• 7. Afterword.