The Canon of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

THE CANON OF MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY: A RESPONSE TO DOV SCHWARTZ Daniel J. Lasker Ben-Gurion University of the Negev An obvious problem in writing a history of medieval Jewish philosophy is determining which compositions are the appropriate source mate- rial for that history. Should such a history concern itself only with a few outstanding compositions or with every treatise that could qual- ify as medieval, Jewish, and philosophical? One of Dov Schwartz's major contributions to the study of medieval Jewish philosophy has been his locating and examining of forgotten treatises and expand- ing, thereby, the literary basis for such a

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