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Hasdaï Crescas

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Philosopher and rabbi of Barcelona, author of The Light of the Lord (Or Hashem), a major critique of Maimonides' Aristotelianism. His philosophy of free will and divine love influenced Spinoza. He lost his son in the massacres of 1391.

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Sources & resources

Baer, Spain, index
« Hasdaï Crescas », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
S. Pines, Scholasticism after Thomas Aquinas and the Teachings of Hasdai Crescas and his Predecessors (1967)
H.A. Wolfson, Crescas' Critique of Aristotle (1916)
S.B. Urbach, Ammudei ha-Ma?ashavah ha-Yisre'elit (1961)
Guttmann, Philosophies, 224ff
Husik, Philosophy, 388ff
D. Lasker, Jewish Philosophical Polemics against Christianity in the Middle Ages (1977)
A. Ravitzky, Derashat ha-Pesa? le-Rabbi ?asdai Crescas (1988)
C. Sirat, History of Jewish Philosophy (1985)
W.Z. Harvey, Physics and Metaphysics in Hasdai Crescas (1998)