Primary Literature

• Albo, Joseph, 1929, Sefer ha-‘Ikkarim [Book of Principles], I. Husik (trans. and ed.), Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Ackerman, A., 2013, “Zerahia Halevi Saladin and Joseph Albo on Natural, Conventional and Divine Law”, Jewish Studies Quarterly, 20: 315–339. (Scholar)
• Agus, J. B., 1959, The Evolution of Jewish Thought from Biblical Times to the Opening of the Modern Era, London: Abelard-Schuman. (Scholar)
• Back, S., 1869, Joseph Albo’s Bedeutung in der Geschichte der jüdischen Religionsphilosophie: Ein Beitrag zur genauern Kenntniss der Tendenz des Buches “IKKARIM”, Breslau: B. Heidenfeld. (Scholar)
• Baer, Y., 1961, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain (Volume 2), Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. (Scholar)
• Ben-Sasson, H. H., 1984, Retzef u-tmurah [Continuity and Variety], J. R. Hacker (ed.), Tel Aviv: Am Oved Publishers. (Scholar)
• Bleich, J. D., 1997, “Providence in the Philosophy of Hasdai Crescas and Joseph Albo”, in Hazon Nahum: Studies in Jewish Law, Thought, and History Presented to Dr. Norman Lamm, Y. Elman & J. S. Gurock (eds.), New York: Yeshiva University Press, pp. 311–358. (Scholar)
• Cohen, J., 1993, “Profiat Duran’s The Reproach of the Gentiles and the Development of Jewish Anti-Christian Polemic”, in Shlomo Simonsohn Jubilee Volume: Studies on the History of the Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, D. Carpi et al. (eds.), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, pp. 71–84 (English section). (Scholar)
• Davidson, H. A., 1983, “Medieval Jewish Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century”, in Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century, B. D. Cooperman (ed.), Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 106–145. (Scholar)
• Ehrlich, D., 2004a, “Ahavat ha-el u-ktivah ezoterit be-Sefer ha-‘Ikkarim le-R. Yosef Albo” [Love of God and esoteric writing in Albo’s Book of Roots], Da‘at, 53: 63–82. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004b, Filosofia ve-omanut ha-ktivah be-Sefer ha-‘Ikkarim le-R. Yosef Albo [Philosophy and the art of writing in R. Joseph Albo’s Book of Roots], Ph.D. diss., Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan. (Scholar)
• –––, 2006, “A Reassessment of Natural Law in Rabbi Joseph Albo’s Book of Principles”, Hebraic Political Studies, 1: 413–439. (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, “Het, tshuvah u-kfirah be-Sefer ha-‘Ikkarim le-R. Yosef Albo” [Sin, repentance and heresy in R. Josepf Albo’s Book of Principles], in Al ha-tshuvah ve-al ha-geulah: minhat shay le-Binyamin Gross [On repentance and redemption: presented to Binyamin Gross], D. Schwartz & A. Gross (eds.), Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, pp. 55–80. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009a, Haguto shel R. Yosef Albo: ktivah ezoterit be-shilhey yemey he-beinayim [The thought of R. Joseph Albo: esoteric writing in the late middle ages], Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009b, “Hidden Apocalyptic Messianism in Late Medieval Jewish Thought”, Review of Rabbinic Judaism, 12: 75–88. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, “Ha-dimuy ha-aristoteli shel einey ha-atalef ke-hipertext etsel Rihal, Ibn Daud, Hillel mi-Verona and Albo”, Daat, 74–75: 357–374. (Scholar)
• –––, 2017, “Ekron ha-maamad ba-diyunim al nitshiyut onesh ha-gehenom etsel ha-Ran, Rahak ve-Albo”, Daat, 83: 69–84. (Scholar)
• Gonzalo Maeso, D., 1971, “La Judería de Soria y el Rabino José Albo”, Misceláneade Estudios Arabes y Hebraicos, 20 (2): 119–141. (Scholar)
• Graetz, H., 1894, History of the Jews (Volume IV), Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America. (Scholar)
• Guttmann, J., 1955, “Le-heker ha-mekorot shel sefer ha-‘ikkarim” [An inquiry concerning the sources of the Sefer ha-Ikkarim], in Dat u-mada: kovetz ma’amarim ve-harza’ot [Religion and Knowledge: Essays and Lectures], S. H. Bergman & N. Rotenstreich (eds.), Jerusalem: Magnes Press, The Hebrew University, pp. 169–191. (Scholar)
• –––, 1964, Philosophies of Judaism: The History of Jewish philosophy from Biblical Times to Franz Rosenzweig, New York: Doubleday. (Scholar)
• Gutwirth, E., 1993, “Conversions to Christianity Amongst Fifteenth-Century Spanish Jews: An Alternative Explanation”, in Shlomo Simonsohn Jubilee Volume: Studies on the History of the Jews in the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, D. Carpi et al. (eds.), Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University, pp. 97–121 (English section). (Scholar)
• Harvey, W. Z., 1979–80, “Albo’s Discussion of Time”, Jewish Quarterly Review, 70: 210–238. (Scholar)
• –––, 2015, “Albo on Repentance and Coersion”, Jewish Law Annual, 21: 47–57. (Scholar)
• Husik, I., 1928–30, “Joseph Albo The Last of the Mediaeval Jewish Philosophers”, Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research, 1: 61–72. (Scholar)
• –––, 1966, A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy, New York: Harper Torchbook. (Scholar)
• Kellner, M., 1986, Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought From Maimonides to Abravanel, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Klein-Braslavi, S., 1976, “Meziut ha-zman ve-ha-yamim ha-rishonim la-briah ba-filosofia ha-yehudit shel yemei ha-beinayim” [The reality of time and the primordial period in mediaeval Jewish philosophy], Tarbiz, 45: 106–127. (Scholar)
• –––, 1980, “Terumato shel R. Nissim Girondi le-’itzuvan shel torot ha-‘ikkarim shel Hasdai Crescas ve-shel Yosef Albo” [The influence of R. Nissim Girondi on Crescas’ and Albo’s “principles”], Eshel Beer-Sheva, 2: 177–197. (Scholar)
• Kreisel, H., 2001, Prophecy: The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. (Scholar)
• Lasker, D. J., 1977, Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages, New York: Ktav Publication House. (Scholar)
• –––, 1980, “Torat ha-‘immut be-mishnato ha-filosofit shel Yosef Albo” [Joseph Albo’s theory of verification], Da‘at, 5: 5–12. (Scholar)
• –––, 1998, “The Impact of Christianity on Late Iberian Jewish Philosophy”, in In Iberia and Beyond: Hispanic Jews between Cultures, B. D. Cooperman (ed.), Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp. 175–190. (Scholar)
• Lerner, R., 1964, “Natural Law in Albo’s Book of Roots”, in Ancients and Moderns: Essays on the Tradition of Political Philosophy in Honor of Leo Strauss, J. Cropsey (ed.), New York: Basic Books, pp. 132–147. (Scholar)
• –––, 2000, Maimonides’ Empire of Light: Popular Enlightenment in an Age of Belief, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (Scholar)
• Manekin, Charles H., 1997, “Hebrew philosophy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: an overview”, in History of Jewish Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies: Volume 2), D. H. Frank & O. Leaman (eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 350–378. (Scholar)
• Melamed, A., 1989, “Ha-‘Im hikdim ibn Wakar et Albo be-sivug ha-hukim?” [Did ibn Wakar precede Albo in the classification of the law?], Tura, 1: 270–284. (Scholar)
• Motis Dolader, M. A., 1990, “The Disappearance of the Jewish Community of Daroca in the Beginning of the 15^th Century”, Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress for Jewish Studies, 2: 143–150. (Scholar)
• Netanyahu, B., 1966, The Marranos of Spain from the Late 14^th Century to the Early 16^th Century According to Contemporary Hebrew Sources, New York: American Academy for Jewish Research. (Scholar)
• Novak, D., 1983, The Image of the Non-Jew in Judaism: A Historical and Constructive Study of the Noahides laws, New York: Mellen. (Scholar)
• Rauschenbach, S., 2002, Josef Albo: Jüdische Philosophie und christliche Kontroverstheologie in der Frühen Neuzeit [Studies in European Judaism, vol. 3], Leiden: Brill. (Scholar)
• Ravitzky, A., 1988, Derashat ha-Pesah le-R. Hasdai Crescas u-mehkarim be-mishnato ha-filosofit [Crescas’ sermon on the Passover and studies in his philosophy], Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. (Scholar)
• Rudavsky, T. M., 1997, “Creation and Temporality in Medieval Jewish Philosophy”, Faith and Philosophy, 14: 458–477. (Scholar)
• Sadik, S., 2012, “Ha-behira be-haguto shel Rabbi Yosef Albo” [Freedom of Choice in the Thought of Rabbi Josef Albo], Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal, 11: 139–151. (Scholar)
• Sarachek, J., 1932, The Doctrine of the Messiah in Medieval Jewish Literature, New York: Hermon Press. (Scholar)
• Schlesinger, L., 1844, Introduction to Joseph Albo, Buch Ikkarim: Grund- und Glaubenslehren der Mosaischen Religion, trans. W. Schlessinger & L. Schlesinger, Frankfurt a.M.. (Scholar)
• Schwartz, D., 1991, “Ha-Yeridah ha-ruhanit datit shel ha-kehilah ha-yehudit bi-sfarad be-sof ha-meah ha-arba‘ ‘esre” [The spiritual-intellectual decline of the Jewish community in Spain at the end of the fourteenth century], Pe‘amim, 46–47: 92–114. (Scholar)
• –––, 1997, Ha-Ra’ayon ha-meshihi be-hagut ha-yehudit bi-ymei ha-beinayim [Messianism in medieval Jewish thought], Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, Setirah ve-hastarah be-hagut ha-yehudit bi-ymei ha-beinayim [Contradiction and concealment in medieval Jewish thought], Ramat-Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press. (Scholar)
• Schweid, E., 1963, “Bein mishnat ha-‘ikkarim shel R. Yosef Albo le-mishnat ha-‘ikkarim shel ha-Rambam” [Joseph Albo’s system of dogmas as distinct from that of Maimonides], Tarbiz, 33: 74–84. (Scholar)
• –––, 1965, “Ha-nevuah be-mishnato shel R. Yosef Albo” [The doctrine of prophecy in the philosophic system of R. Joseph Albo], Tarbiz, 35: 48–60. (Scholar)
• –––, 1967, Introduction to Sefer ha-‘Ikkarim le-R. Yosef Albo: perakim [R. Joseph Albo’s Book of Principles: chapters], Jerusalem: Bialik Institute. (Scholar)
• –––, 1968, “Ha-pulmus neged ha-Nazrut ke-gorem me’azzev be-mishnat ha-R. Y. Albo” [The polemic against Christianity as a factor in shaping Joseph Albo’s doctrines], Proceedings of the Forth World Congress for Jewish Studies, 2: 309–312. (Scholar)
• Shemesh, A. O., 2019, “Two Medieval Necromantic Practices: Maimonides Versus Nahmanides and R. Joseph Albo Concerning ‘Ob’ and ‘Yidoni’”, Review of Rabbinic Judaism, 22: 93–119. (Scholar)
• Tänzer, A., 1896, Die Religionsphilosophie Josef Albo’s nach seinem werke ‘Ikkarim’: Systematisch Dragestellt und Erläutert, Frankfurt a.M.: Kauffmann. (Scholar)
• Waxman, M., 1956, “Shitato shel R. Yosef Albo be-‘ikkarei ha-dat ve-yahasah le-torat bnei-doro R. Hasdai Crescas ve-R. Shimon ben-Zemah Duran” [The method of R. Joseph Albo in the principles of religion and its relation to the theory of his contemporaries, R. Hasdai Crescas and R. Shimon ben Zemah Duran], Bi-shvilei ha-sifrut ve-ha-mahshavah ha-‘ivrit [Paths in Jewish literature and philosophy], Tel Aviv: Yavne, pp. 135–165. (Scholar)
• Weiss, S., 2017, Joseph Albo on Free Choice: Exegetical Innovation in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wolfson, H. A., 1916–17, “Crescas on the Problem of Divine Attributes”, Jewish Quarterly Review, 7: 1–44, 175–221. (Scholar)