Two approaches to the love of God in medieval Jewish thought: The concept of devequt in the works of Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Two approaches to the love of God in medieval Jewish thought: The concept of devequt in the works of Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi

Published:1999-06 Issue:2 Volume:28 Page:139-151
ISSN:0008-4298
Container-title:Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
language:en
Short-container-title:Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses

Author:

Hughes Aaron¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Religious Studies, Indiana University, 230 Sycamore Hall, Bloomington, IN 47405,

Abstract

Both Abraham Ibn Ezra and Judah Halevi claim that the ideal relationship between the individual and God is founded on love and culminates in the individual cleaving ( devequt) to God. Although they use the same term to describe this telos, they envisage the means to it in different ways. A closer analysis of this term reveals that this difference is rooted in their respective ideas concerning the role of philosophy in Judaism. Ibn Ezra, a rationalist, claims that the individual loves God through the observation of natural phenomena. Halevi, however, claims that the love of God is grounded in the historical experience of the Jewish people.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Religious studies

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/000842989902800201

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2. Efros, Israel 1978 "Some aspects of Judah Halevi's mysticism." In Israel Efros (ed.), Studies in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, 141-54. New York: Columbia University Press.

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