Chapter II: Part I

Introduction—
Dedicatory Letter 1
The Object of the Guide 2
On Similes 4
Directions for the Study of this Work 8
Introductory Remarks 9

CHAPTER.
I The homonymity of Ẓelem 13
II On Genesis iii. 5 14
III On tabnit and temunah 16
IV On raah, hibbit and ḥazah 17
V On Exod. xxiv. 10 18
VI On ish and ishshah, aḥ and aḥot 19
VII On yalad 19
VIII On maḳom 20
IX On kisse 21
X On ʻalah, yarad 22
XI On yashab 23
XII On kam 24
XIII On ʻamad 25
XIV On adam 25
XV On naẓab, yaẓab 25
XVI On Ẓur 26
XVII On Mishnah Ḥagigah ii. 1 27
XVIII On ḳarab, nagaʻ, niggash 27
XIX On male 28
XX On ram, nissa 29
XXI On ʻabar 30
XXII On ba 32
XXIII On Yaẓa, shub 32
XXIV On halak 33
XXV On shaken 34
XXVI On “The Torah speaketh the language of man” 34
XXVII On Targum of Gen. xlvi. 4 35
XXVIII On regel 37
XXIX On ʻaẓeb 39
XXX On akal 39
XXXI, XXXII On the Limit of Man’s Intellect 40, 42
XXXIII to XXXVI On the Study and the Teaching of
Metaphysics 43–52
XXXVII On panim 52
XXXVIII On aḥor 53
XXXIX On leb 54
XL On ruaḥ 55
XLI On nefesh 56
XLII On ḥayyim-mavet 56
XLIII On kanaf 57
XLIV On ʻayin 58
XLV On shamaʻ 58
XLVI, XLVII On the Attribution of Senses and Sensations
to God 59, 63
XLVIII The Targum of shamaʻ and raah 64
XLIX Figurative Expressions applied to Angels 65
L On Faith 67
LI–LX On Attributes 68–89
LI On the Necessity of Proving the Inadmissibility of
Attributes in reference to God 68
LII Classification of Attributes 69
LIII The Arguments of the Attributists 72
LIV On Exod. xxxiii. 13; xxxiv. 7 75
LV On Attributes implying Corporeality, Emotion,
Non-existence and Comparison 78
LVI On Attributes denoting Existence, Life, Power, Wisdom
and Will 79
LVII On the Identity of the Essence of God and His
Attributes 80
LVIII On the Negative Sense of the True Attributes of God 81
LIX On the Character of the Knowledge of God Consisting
of Negations 83
LX On the Difference between Positive and Negative
Attributes 87
LXI On the Names of God 89
LXII On the Divine Names composed of Four, Twelve and
Forty-two Letters 91
LXIII On Ehyeh, Yah and Shaddai 93
LXIV On “The Name of the Lord,” and “The Glory of God” 95
LXV On the phrase “God spake” 96
LXVI On Exod. xxxii. 16 98
LXVII On shabat and naḥ 99
LXVIII On the Terms: The Intellectus, the Intelligens and
the Intelligibile 100
LXIX On the Primal Cause 102
LXX On the attribute rokeb baʻarabot 105
LXXI The Origin of the Kalām 107
LXXII A Parallel between the Universe and Man 113
LXXIII Twelve Propositions of the Kalām 120
LXXIV Proofs of the Kalām for the creatio ex nihilo 133
LXXV Proofs of the Kalām for the Unity of God 138
LXXVI Proofs of the Kalām for the Incorporeality of God 141