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Roslyn Weiss

Roslyn Weiss is professor emerita of philosophy at Lehigh University. She has authored several books on Plato, translated Light of the Lord (Or Hashem) by Hasdai Crescas (Oxford University Press), and edited Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings (Koren’s Library of the Jewish People).

Fall 2024

Desire and Power: Adam and Eve in Genesis 1–3

By: Roslyn Weiss

What did Eve really want and what did Adam need?

Fall 2022

“The One You Love”? A Case of Divine Disappointment

By: Roslyn Weiss

Which son did Abraham favor? Reading "the binding of Isaac" with fresh eyes.

Spring 2021

Faith and Miracles: Hasdai Crescas’s Passover Sermon

By: Roslyn Weiss

In Hasdai Crescas’s brilliant critique of Maimonides, he replaced the self-intellecting intellect that was Aristotle’s God with the God of Israel, whose essential nature, he argued, was one of unbounded and unfailing love.