Isaac Abravanel on miracles, creation, prophecy, and evil: the tension between medieval Jewish philosophy and biblical commentary
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Isaac Abravanel on Miracles,
Creation, Prophecy, and Evil
The Tension Between
Medieval Jewish Philosophy
and Biblical Commentary
PETER LANG
New York • Washington, D C /Baltimore • Bern
Frankfurt am Main • Berlin • Brussels • Vienna • Oxford
Contents
Editor s Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
List of Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
The Cyclical Character of Abravanel s Political and Intellectual Life 2
Abravanel s Cultural Milieu 9
Abravanel s Impact Upon Jewish Scholarship 16
Abravanel as a Philosopher-Exegete 22
The Relevance of the Supernatural as a Case Study 24
1 The Concept of a Miracle: The Possible and the Impossible 29
Introduction 29
The Concept of Possible and Impossible in Medieval Jewish
Philosophy 31
The Possible and Impossible in Abravanel s Philosophical System 39
Conclusions: The Unifying Principles of Omnipotence 47
The Possible Cases of the Impossible 48
Creation Ex-Nihilo and the Proof from Language 50
Imagination and Intellect as Measures of the Impossible 50
Creation as the Archetypal Miracle 53
Naturalistic and Anti-Naturalistic Doctrines of Creation and
Miracles 54
The Relative Nature of Induction 57
Miracles and Causality: The Muslim Connection 60
The Case of the Fire 61
The Deceiving Power of Observation 62
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The Possibility of a Non-Burning Fire 66
The Hidden Burner 68
Induction and a Miraculous Exception 70
The Impossible Nature of Inference 73
The Possible Nature of Possibility: The Possible as Active,
Independent and Imaginary 75
Possibility as Inherent in the Agent 75
Passive Possibilities as Mental Constructions 76
The Particular Character of Natural Generation 77
Summary and Conclusions: Possibility as an Equivocal Term 77
2 Miracles and the Possibility of Ex-Nihilo Creation 79
Introduction 79
Abravanel: Miracles as Unnatural Irruptions 80
Gersonides: Miracles as a Natural Anomaly 81
Abravanel s Rejection of Gersonides Severance of Miracles and
Creation 85
Does Gersonides Believe in Miracles? 86
3 Miracles and the Divine Will: A Philosophical Midrash 92
The Problem: The Difficult Interplay of Divine Attributes 92
The Case of Creation, Miracles and Divine Will 94
The Maimonidean Solution: To Will and not to Will, That is the
Question 96
Gersonides and the Optimistic View of the Intellect 99
Gersonides Miraculous Solution 100
Miracles, Divine Will, and a Midrashic Discrepancy 102
Abravanel s Rejection of the Fixed Nature of Miracles 106
Theory of the Preservation of Divine Justice 106
Theory of the Prophetic Proof 108
Rejection from the Non-Existence of Universals 109
Rejection from the Perpetual Character of Nature 110
Rejection from the Literal Understanding of the Scriptures I l l
Rejection from a Reasonable Interpretation of the Rabbinical
Sources I l l
Rejection from Other Rabbinical Sources 112
IX
Abravanel s Interpretation: A Transference from Nature to
the Divine Mind 114
The Problem of the Twilight Exceptions 116
Is There a Real Difference Between Gersonides and
Abravanel s Positions? 122
4 Miracles and Free Will 126
5 Agency 135
The Common Ground: The Undisputed Agency 135
The Dispute over the Identity of the Agent 136
Gersonides Arguments for the Agency of the Agent Intellect 136
Abravanel s Rejection of Gersonides Argument for the
Agency of the Agent Intellect 138
The Fundamental Disagreement: The Intervention of the Agent
Intellect 141
The Agent Intellect and the Problem of Immediate and Remote
Causality 145
The Systemic Origin of Abravanel s and Gersonides
Disagreement Concerning Agency 152
6 The Controversy over the Purpose of Miracles 154
Introduction 154
Teleological Theories and the Origin of Evil 154
Methodological Considerations 156
The Problem of the Multiplicity of Purposes 156
The Crucial Difference: Purpose and Goodness 159
Teleology and the Theological Dimension of Evil 160
Does Gersonides, as Abravanel Maintains, Really Reject
the Punitive Character of Miracles? 166
7 Prophecy and Miracles 169
The Third Alternative: Prophecy and the Agency of Miracles 169
The Disagreement: The Extent of Prophetic Intervention 174
The Nature of Mosaic Prophecy: A Philosophical-Theological
Midrash 176
Abravanel on Mosaic Prophecy 181
Abravanel s Rejection of Gersonides Interpretation 181
The Literal Meaning 181
All Miracles are Equal in Respect to God 184
The Beneficial Purpose of Stopping the Sun and the Moon 185
Abravanel s Preservation of Moses Superiority 187
The Nature of Mosaic Prophecy 190
Mosaic Prophecy in Light of Deuteronomy 191
A Strange Abravanelian Interpretation of Moses Miracles 197
A Solution: The Coexistence of Prophetic and Miraculous
Superiority 205
8 Final Words: The Dynamics of Scripture and Philosophy 210
Introduction 210
Abravanel as a Philosopher-Exegete 213
Usage of Philosophical Language 213
Knowledge of Philosophical Doctrines 213
Knowledge of TheMifa lot 215
Conclusions 217
Bibliography 219
Abravanel: Primary Sources 219
Abravanel: Translated Works 220
Primary Sources: Other Authors 220
Secondary Sources 222
Index 235
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