Yehuda HaLevi  & The Kuzari -

Professor Daniel Lasker

 

BA, MA and PhD, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University.

 

Norbert Blechner Professor of Jewish Values (emeritus) in the Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

 

Academic areas of interest: medieval Jewish philosophy including the thought of Yehuda HaLevi, Maimonides, Hasdai Cresca, Jewish- Christian relations and Karaite Judaism

 

Selected works:

·        Karaism: An Introduction to the Oldest Surviving Alternative Judaism

·        The Refutation of the Christian Principles

·        Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction

·        Theological Encounters at a Crossroads

·        From Judah Hadassi to Elijah Bashyatchi: Studies in Late Medieval Karaite Philosophy