Philosopher and Prophet

Relates the various strata of Halevi's Book of Kuzari to the different periods of Halevi's philosophical development. This book is the first to describe the development of Halevi's thought with a view to reaching a better understanding of its inherent systematic difficulties, as well as enabling identification of the various strata of the book belonging to different periods in his philosophical development. The first part describes a kind of Aristotelian philosophy which seems to be espoused by