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Roslyn Weiss

Roslyn Weiss is professor emerita of philosophy at Lehigh University. She is the author, most recently, of Justice in Plato’s Republic: The Lessons of Book 1 (Cambridge University Press), the translator of Hasdai Crescas’s Light of the Lord (Or Hashem) (Oxford University Press), and the editor of Hasdai Crescas: Collected Writings (Koren: Library of the Jewish People).

Fall 2026

“All My Goodness”: God’s Face and Back

By: Roslyn Weiss

Searching for the face of forgiveness

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.