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Part 1.The reception of Gersonides' philosophical and Halakhic oeuvre."Composition, not commentary": Gersonides' commentary on the Isagoge of Porphyry and its afterlife /Charles H. Manekin --The supercommentaries of Gersonides and his students on Averroes's epitomes of the Physics and the Meteorology /Steven Harvey and Resianne Fontaine --Crescas' relationship to Gersonides /Warren Zev Harvey --From denunciation to appreciation: Gersonides in the eyes of members of the Ibn Shem Ṭov family /Doron Forte --Gersonides and his Sephardic critics /Seymour Feldman --A fifteenth-century reader of Gersonides: Don Isaac Abravanel, providence, astral influences, active intellect, and humanism /Cedric Cohen-Skalli and Oded Horezky --Gersonides' philosophy in fifteenth-century Byzantium: Shabbetai ben Malkiel ha-Kohen's defense of Averroes's theory of material intellect /Ofer Elior --Gersonides' reception in the Ashkenazi yradition / Tamás Visi --The Karaite reception of Gersonides /Daniel J. Lasker --Gersonides' Biblical commentaries in a fifteenth-century Slavic translation of the Bible /Moshe Taube --Gersonides' responsa and their reception /Pinchas Roth --Part 2.The reception of Gersonides' astronomical and astrological oeuvre.The lunar cycle of 11,325 Days /José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein --The afterlife of Gersonides' cross-staff and of the poem dedicated to it /Gad Freudenthal --Violas de Rodez' political prognostication for the year 1355: reaction to the prognostications for 1345-1355? /Hagar Kahana-Smilansky --Part 3.Printing and Reading Histories.The reception history of Gersonides' writings, according to their early printing history (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) /Zeev Gries --Gersonides Hebraicus atque Latinus: some remarks on Levi ben Gershom's works and the reading and book-collecting cultures of the Renaissance /Michela Andreatta --Censoring/"improving" Gersonides: the case of the Toʻalot /Menachem Kellner --Part 4.Gersonides' oeuvre in nineteenth-cent