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Crescas

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[kres-kuhs] / ˈkrɛs kəs /

noun

  1. Hasdai 1340–1412?, Jewish philosopher and theologian, born in Spain.


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Crescas, as we might naturally expect, agrees with Maimonides in this matter rather than with Gersonides.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

David Neumark, "Crescas and Spinoza," in Commemoration of the Fifth Centenary of the Publication of the "Or Adonai"; in Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, XVIII, 1908, pp. 277-318.

From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Husik, Isaac

These splendid words of the great thinker require supplementing or modification in only one direction, and that has been afforded by the keenest critic among Jewish philosophers, Hasdai Crescas.

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

Cosmology, 141 Cosmos, 68, 146 Covenant, God's, 48, 51, 157-161, 235-270, 322 Creation, 147-153 Creative principles, 203 Credo, 22-25, 31 Crescas, Hasdai, 24 f.,

From Jewish Theology by Kohler, Kaufmann

Maragon has a connection with these Psis—it's all over town that he got Keys Crescas off.

From Modus Vivendi by Berryman, John

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