(CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY) This volume collects ten essays by Manuel Joel (1826-1890), one of the greatest 19th century students of Jewish thought. The essays throw light on the whole course of medieval and early modern Jewish philosophy, especially its relations with and influence upon Christian philosophy in the medieval and early modern periods. Volume I "Moses Maimonides" (1876); "Verhaltniss Albert des Grossen zu Moses Maimonides" (1876); "Lewi ben Gerson (Gersonides)" (1862); "Etwas uber den Einfluss der judischen Philosophie auf die Christliche Scholastik" (1860). Volume II includes "Don Chasdai Creskas' religions philosophis che Lehren" (1886); "Spinoza's theologisch politischer Traktat auf seine Quellen gepruft" (1870); "Zur Genesis de Lehre Spinoza's" (1871); "Uber Philo" (1862); "Saadias" (1865); and "Gedachtnissrede auf Moses Mendelssohn" (1866). German text