Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish garb : foundations and challenges in Judaism on the eve of modernity /
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Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual life in the Renaissance, this book tries to distinguish the coordinates of "modernity" as premises of Jewish philosophy, and vice versa. In the first part, it is concerned with the foundations of Jewish philosophy, its nature as philosophical science and as wisdom. The second part is devoted to certain elements and challenges of the humanist and Renaissance period as reflected in Judaism: historical consciousness and the sciences, utopian tradition, the legal status of the Jews in Christian political tradition and in Jewish political thought, aesthetic concepts of the body and conversion.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index. :
9789047425281 :
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Obadiah Sforno: Light of the Nations : Or ʿAmmim / Lumen Gentium /
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Light of the Nations is a philosophical work written by the Jewish intellectual and eminent biblical commentator Obadiah Sforno (ca. 1475-1550). His treatise, an apology for both Jewish and universal monotheistic beliefs, was published in Hebrew in 1537 under the title Or 'Ammim and was translated by the author into Latin as Lumen Gentium in 1548. Written in the style of a classical medieval Scholastic summa, the treatise's multilingual and multicultural dimensions reveal key humanist ideas that prevailed in the cities of northern Italy during the early modern period, while also speaking to its author's abiding exegetical rationality.
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1 online resource (608 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004689725
Habent sua fata fragmenta"" : Festschrift in Honour of Mauro Perani Offered by Friends and Colleagues, European Genizah Texts and Studies, Volume 7 /
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This volume, dedicated to celebrating Professor Mauro Perani's career, encompasses a collection of original and groundbreaking essays on Hebrew and Jewish manuscripts, from late antiquity onwards, by international scholars and specialists of Hebrew palaeography, philology and Jewish history. The first section deals with research on documents, letters and literary sources shading new light on forgotten aspects of Medieval and Early Modern Jewish history. The second part introduces to recent discoveries and analysis of Hebrew fragments found reused as bindings and covers of other books in European libraries and archives.
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1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004704169