Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Crescas Hasdai ben Abraham (c. 1340 - 1410/1411) was a Jewish philosopher and a renowned halakhist. His halakhic works - if indeed he ever committed such work to writing - have not reached us. But his concise philosophical work The Light of the Lord was the ultimate Jewish refutation of medieval Aristotelianism, and a harbinger of the scientific revolution in the 16th century. Works The Light of the Lord (Hebrew: Or Hashem or Or Adonai) The Refutation of the Christian Principles (polemics and some philosophy) Passover Sermon (religious philosophy and some halakha) Important studies Harry Austryn Wolfson, Crescas' Critique of Aristotle. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1929. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.