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Kuzari - Names of God | | Kuzari - Names of God: Encyclopedia II - Kuzari - Names of God | | The fourth essay opens with an analysis of the various names of God found in the Bible. According to Judah, all these names, with the exception of the Tetragrammaton, are attributes expressing the various states of God's activity in the world. The multiplicity of names no more implies a multiplicity in His essence than do the multifarious influences of the rays of the sun on various bodies imply a multiplicity of suns. To the intuitive vision of the prophet the actions proceeding from God appear under the images of the corresponding human actions. Angels are God's messengers; and either they exist for a length of time, or they ...
See also:Kuzari, Kuzari - Introduction, Kuzari - Creatio ex Nihilo, Kuzari - Superiority of his faith, Kuzari - Question of attributes, Kuzari - Names of God, Kuzari - Arguments against philosophy, Kuzari - Influence of the Kuzari, Kuzari - The Kuzari Principle, Kuzari - Bibliography | | | Kuzari, Kuzari - Arguments against philosophy, Kuzari - Bibliography, Kuzari - Creatio ex Nihilo, Kuzari - Influence of the Kuzari, Kuzari - Introduction, Kuzari - Names of God, Kuzari - Question of attributes, Kuzari - Superiority of his faith, Kuzari - The Kuzari Principle | | |
| | | Kuzari: Encyclopedia II - Kuzari - Names of God
Kuzari - Names of God
The fourth essay opens with an analysis of the various names of God found in the Bible. According to Judah, all these names, with the exception of the Tetragrammaton, are attributes expressing the various states of God's activity in the world. The multiplicity of names no more implies a multiplicity in His essence than do the multifarious influences of the rays of the sun on various bodies imply a multiplicity of suns. To the intuitive vision of the prophet the actions proceeding from God appear under the images of the corresponding human actions. Angels are God's messengers; and either they exist for a length of time, or they are created only for special purposes.
From the names of God and the essence of angels Judah passes to his favorite theme and shows that the views of the Prophets are a purer source for a knowledge of God than the teachings of the philosophers. Although he professes great reverence for the "Sefer Yeẓrah," from which he quotes many passages, he hastens to add that the theories of Abraham elucidated therein had been held by the patriarch before God revealed Himself to him. The essay concludes with examples of the astronomical and medical knowledge of the ancient Hebrews.
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