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HoP 156 - Sarah Pessin on Jewish Neoplatonism

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Ineffability of the First Principle

The idea of what we might describe as a necessarily emanating divine source for Ibn Gabbirul, I would certainly say, is consistent with and is in fact exactly what he means by the divine irat or the divine will. But while we're on the topic of the first principle, it seems to me that there's another potential area where they might get into trouble trying to bring together the Bible with Neoplatonism. So how did these Jewish Neoplatonists negotiate between the sort of ineffability of the Neoplatonic first principle and the abundant language that's used about God? And then you have the Bible, which seems to be saying quite a lot about God.

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