T.M. Rudavsky is Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University. She, she is co-editor with Steven Nadler of the Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: From Antiquity through the Seventeenth Century (2009) and author of Time Matters: Time, Creation and Cosmology in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2000). Her most recent book (2010) on Maimonides has appeared in the "Great Minds" series with Blackwell-Wiley Press. The author as well of numerous articles and encyclopedia entries, her major research continues to focus on issues connected to philosophical cosmology in medieval Jewish and scholastic thought.

• 1: Introduction: What Is Jewish Philosophy? 2: Athens, Jerusalem, and Beyond: The Formative Schools and Personalities 3: On Achieving Truth: Science, Philosophy, and Faith 4: Divine Science: The Existence and Nature of God 5: Philosophical Theology: God, Suffering, and Omniscience 6: Creation, Time, and Eternity 7: Philosophical Cosmology: The Nature of the Universe 8: On Immortality and the Nature of the Soul 9: Social and Political Thought: Happiness, Virtue, and Living the Good Life 10: Concluding Comments

Though yet another survey of medieval Jewish philosophy, this volume by Rudavsky is nevertheless an original and helpful volume in the genre. It is explicitly written as a complement if not supplement to othersurveys of medieval philosophy that have generally been found wanting regarding Jewish philosophers and their rich history of engagement with many of the same issues and even texts.