Hasdai Crescas, Jewish philosopher and a renowned halakhist (teacher of Jewish law)
Hasdai Crescas | Hasdai ibn Shaprut | Hasdai ben Hezekiah | Hasdai | Crescas | Abiathar Crescas |
He is best known for his seminal work on the Jewish philosopher Philo, but was the author of an astonishing variety and quantity of other works on Crescas, Maimonides, Averroes, Spinoza, the Kalam, the Church Fathers, and the foundations of Western religion.
He showed how Albertus Magnus derived some of his ideas from Maimonides and how Spinoza was indebted to the same writer, as well as to Hasdai Crescas.