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 th...
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| Format: | eBook |
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Brighton, Massachusetts :
Academic Studies Press
2019
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| Series: | Perspectives in Jewish intellectual life.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422287106719 |
Table of Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: From Philosophy to Kabbalah: Yeḥiyel 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-ḥerev 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 Ḥayyim Luzzatto and some Kabbalists of his time
- Notes
- Index
