Filosofía, historia y polemismo religioso en Abraham ibn Daud

José Antonio Fernández López

doi:10.48162/rev.35.030

Authors

José Antonio Fernández López Universidad de Murcia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48162/rev.35.030

Keywords:

Ibn Daud, Tradition, history, philosophy, rabbinic Judaism

Abstract

Written almost simultaneously (c. 1160) by Abraham Ibn Daud, The Book of Tradition and The Exalted Faith respond to a common purpose, developed, respectively, from a historiographic and philosophical perspective: to define and defend rabbinic Judaism in the Iberian Peninsula, within the general framework of an apologia pro religione Judaica. Our objective in this present paper is to investigate the fundamental features of these two works from the perspective of the religious polemicism, showing the differences between the philosophical and historical version that each of them, respectively, represents.

Author Biography

José Antonio Fernández López, Universidad de Murcia

Doctor en Filosofía y profesor de Historia de la Filosofía Medieval en la Facultad de Filosofía de la Universidad de Murcia (España).

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