Theology of nature in sixteenth-century Italian Jewish philosophy

Science in Context

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 529-570

  Tirosh Samuelson, Hava ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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