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6. See, e.g., Yitzhak Baer, A History of the Jews in Christian Spain, 2 vols. (Phila-
   delphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1966), 1:245 – 47.


7. On Rashi and Ibn Ezra, see chapters 6 and 7 in this volume, by Polliack and
   Harris.


8. Isadore Twersky, introduction to Twersky, Rabbi Moses Nahmanides (Ram-
   ban), 4.


9. Caputo, Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia, 54.


10. For this rendering, see Moshe Greenberg, Ezekiel 1 – 20 (Garden City, NY:
    Doubleday, 1983), 115.


11. Ramban, commentary to Deuteronomy 32:40. Th e Hebrew text is found in
    Perush ha-Ramban al ha-Torah, 2 vols., ed. Haim Dov Chavel (Jerusalem: Mosad
    ha-Rav Kook, 1959), 2:490 – 91. English translations here and in what follows are my
    own. For the reader unfamiliar with Hebrew, an excellent English translation of the
    commentary may be found in Commentary on the Torah, 5 vols., trans. and anno-
    tated by Haim Dov (Charles Ber) Chavel (Brooklyn, NY: Shilo, 1999), 5:367 – 68. For
    the sake of convenience, in passages that follow, I put the page number from this
    English translation in parentheses.


12. See Moshe Halbertal, “Th e Minhag and the History of Halakhah in the
    Teaching of Nahmanides” (in Hebrew), Zion 67 (2002): 25 – 56. On the role of his-
    tory more generally in Nahmanides’s thought, see Haviva Pedaya, Ha-Ramban:
    Hita lut — Zeman Mahzori ve-Tekst Kadosh (Tel Aviv: Am Oved, 2003).


13. Ramban, introduction to Perush ha-Ramban al ha-Torah, 1:xv – xvi (1:3 – 4).


14. Ramban, introduction to the Book of Genesis, 1:1 (1:7).


15. Ramban, introduction to the Book of Genesis, 1:3 (1:10).


16. Haim Dov Chavel, Kitvei Rabbenu Moshe ben Nahman (Jerusalem: Mosad
    ha-Rav Kook, 1964), 1:341 – 42.


17. Ramban, commentary to Exodus 30:13, 1:492 – 93 (2:518 – 19).


18. Ramban, commentary to Deuteronomy 11:22, 2:395 (5:136).


19. Ibid.


20. Ibid.


21. Ramban, introduction to the Book of Genesis, 1:1 (1:7).


22. Ibid., 1:6 – 7 (1:13 – 14).


23. See, for example, his comments to Genesis 1:26 and 35:16.


24. Ramban, commentary to Genesis 1:1. On the concept of “articles of faith” in
    premodern Judaism, see Menachem Kellner, Dogma in Medieval Jewish Th ought:
    From Maimonides to Abravanel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).


25. Ramban, commentary to Genesis 1:1


26. Ramban, commentary to Genesis 18:1, 1:103 – 4 (1:226 – 27).


27. Ibid., 1:104 – 5 (1:227).


28. Ramban, commentary to Genesis 46:1, 1:251 – 52 (1:552).


29. Ibid., 1:252 (1:552 – 53).


30. Ramban, introduction to Perush ha-Ramban al ha-Torah, 1:xv – xvi (1:5).