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Crescas

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.