Italian Jewry in the early modern era essays in intellectual history
Between the years 1550 and 1650, Italy's Jewish intellectuals created a unique and enduring synthesis of the great literary and philosophical heritage of the Andalusian Jews and the Renaissance`s renewal of perspective. While remaining faithful to the beliefs, behaviors, and language of their t...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, Massachusetts
Academic Studies Press
2013, 2013
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| Series: | Perspectives in Jewish intellectual life
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Table of Contents:
- 1.From Philosophy to Kabbalah: Yehiyel Nissim of Pisa and the Critique of Aristotelianism
- 2.Can Fundamentalism be Modern? The Case of Avraham Portaleone, the Repentant Scientist
- 3.Allegorical Space and Geometrical Space: Representations of the Temple of Jerusalem in the Works of Italian Jewish Authors
- 4.The Myth of Politics in the Jewish Communities of the Italian City-States
- 5.A Link to Humanity: Judaism as Nation and Universal Religion
- 6.The Italian and Latin Works of Lazzaro da Viterbo, Sixteenth-Century Jewish Humanist
- 7.Leone Modena's Magen we-herev as an Anti-Catholic Apologia
- 8.The Immortality of the Soul and Opening Up to the Christian World
- 9.Kabbalah and Rationalism in the Works of Mosheh Hayyim Luzzatto and some Kabbalists of his time