Maimonidean Controversy and The Issue of Secular Learning

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Jewish attitudes toward secular learning from Talmudic through early modern times. Various stages of the medieval conflict over the writings of Maimonides; early attitudes toward rationalism; the Mishneh Torah and resurrection debates; the great dispute of the 1230s; role of the Kabbalists; compromises of Ramban and Rashba; late medieval Spain; the study of philosophy, literature, and history as an issue in Italy and Poland in early modern times.