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Author : Vittore Colorni
Publisher : Olschki
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Man Tov le-Man Tovah written by Vittore Colorni and published by Olschki. This book was released on 2004 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222251
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-03-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference organized in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world.
Author : Sarra Copia Sulam
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226779874
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Jewish Poet and Intellectual in Seventeenth-Century Venice written by Sarra Copia Sulam and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Jewish woman to leave her mark as a writer and intellectual, Sarra Copia Sulam (1600?–41) was doubly tainted in the eyes of early modern society by her religion and her gender. This remarkable woman, who until now has been relatively neglected by modern scholarship, was a unique figure in Italian cultural life, opening her home, in the Venetian ghetto, to Jews and Christians alike as a literary salon. For this bilingual edition, Don Harrán has collected all of Sulam’s previously scattered writings—letters, sonnets, a Manifesto—into a single volume. Harrán has also assembled all extant correspondence and poetry that was addressed to Sulam, as well as all known contemporary references to her, making them available to Anglophone readers for the first time. Featuring rich biographical and historical notes that place Sulam in her cultural context, this volume will provide readers with insight into the thought and creativity of a woman who dared to express herself in the male-dominated, overwhelmingly Catholic Venice of her time.
Author : Daniel Stein Kokin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110389517
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Hebrew between Jews and Christians written by Daniel Stein Kokin and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-19 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though typically associated more with Judaism than Christianity, the status and sacrality of Hebrew has nonetheless been engaged by both religious cultures in often strikingly similar ways. The language has furthermore played an important, if vexed, role in relations between the two. Hebrew between Jews and Christians closely examines this frequently overlooked aspect of Judaism and Christianity's common heritage and mutual competition.
Author : Tamar Herzig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674237536
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book A Convert’s Tale written by Tamar Herzig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salomone da Sesso was a virtuoso goldsmith in Renaissance Italy. Brought down by a sex scandal, he saved his skin by converting to Catholicism. Tamar Herzig explores Salamone’s world—his Jewish upbringing, his craft and patrons, and homosexuality. In his struggle for rehabilitation, we see how precarious and contested was the meaning of conversion.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004694269
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Simone Luzzatto’s Scepticism in the Context of Early Modern Thought written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of the most recent research on Jewish scepticism was inspired by the work of the early modern Venetian rabbi Simone Luzzatto, the first thinker in the history of Jewish thought to declare himself a sceptic and a follower of the New Academy. This collected volume shines new light on the intimate relationship between Luzzatto’s sceptical thinking and an era marked by paradoxes and contrasts between religious devotion and scientific rationalism, as well as between the rabbinic-biblical Jewish tradition and the open tendency towards engagement with non-Jewish philosophical, literary, scientific, and theological cultures. It plots out an original path along which to understand Luzzatto’s scepticism by pointing to the various facets of being a Jewish sceptic in seventeenth-century Italy.
Author : Piet van Boxel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192654314
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Mishnaic Moment written by Piet van Boxel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays treats a topic that has scarcely been approached in the literature on Hebrew and Hebraism in the early modern period. In the seventeenth century, Christians, especially Protestants, studied the Mishnah alongside a host of Jewish commentaries in order to reconstruct Jewish culture, history, and ritual, shedding new light on the world of the Old and New Testaments. Their work was also inextricably dependent upon the vigorous Mishnaic studies of early modern Jewish communities. Both traditions, in a sense, culminated in the monumental production in six volumes of an edition and Latin translation of the Mishnah published by Guilielmus Surenhusius in Amsterdam between 1698 and 1703. Surenhusius gathered up more than a century's worth of Mishnaic studies by scholars from England, Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden, as well as the commentaries of Maimonides and Obadiah of Bertinoro (c. 1455-c.1515), but this edition was also born out of the unique milieu of Amsterdam at the end of the seventeenth century, a place which offered possibilities for cross-cultural interactions between Jews and Christians. With Surenhusius's great volumes as an end point, the essays presented here discuss for the first time the multiple ways in which the canonical text of Jewish law, the Mishnah (c.200 CE), was studied by a variety of scholars, both Jewish and Christian, in early modern Europe. They tell the story of how the Mishnah generated an encounter between different cultures, faiths, and confessions that would prove to be enduringly influential for centuries to come.
Author : Katherine Aron-Beller
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512824119
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators written by Katherine Aron-Beller and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Christian Images and Their Jewish Desecrators, historian Katherine Aron-Beller analyzes the common Christian charge that Jews habitually and compulsively violated Christian images, identifying this allegation as one that functioned alongside other anti-Jewish allegations such as ritual murder, blood libel, and host desecration to ultimately inform dangerous and long-lasting prejudices in medieval and early modern Europe. Through an analysis of folk tales, myths, legal proceedings, and religious art, Aron-Beller finds that narratives alleging that Jews committed violence against images of Christ, Mary, and the disciples flourished in Europe between the fifth and seventeenth centuries. She then explores how these narratives manifested differently across the continent and the centuries, finding that their potency reflected not Jewish actions per se, but Christians’ own concerns about slipping into idolatry when viewing depictions of religious figures. In addition, Aron-Beller considers Jews’ own attitudes toward Christian imagery and the ways in which they responded to and rejected—or embraced—such allegations. By examining how desecration allegations affected Jewish individuals and communities spanning Byzantium, medieval England, France, Germany, and early modern Spain and Italy, Aron-Beller demonstrates that this charge was a powerful expression of the Christian majority’s anxiety around committing idolatry and their eagerness to participate in practices of veneration that revolved around visual images—an anxiety that evolved through the centuries and persists to this day.
Author : Sacha Stern
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004206493
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Sects and Sectarianism in Jewish History written by Sacha Stern and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sects and sectarianism are popular themes in Jewish history, but the meaning of these terms is elusive, often raising more problems than solutions. This volume, drawing on the expertise of a wide range of scholars, examines several Jewish groups from Antiquity to the present day that have been traditionally identified as ‘sects’ or as ‘sectarian’, including most famously the Qumran community and the Qaraites. It questions whether ‘sect’ and ‘sectarianism’ are appropriate or effective as historical categories for the interpretation of social and religious movements in Jewish history.
Author : Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311036641X
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary. As a mirror, it includes this world but perhaps also falsifies reality, adapting it to one's own aims and necessities. It consists of four parts: Part I, considered as introduction, is the description of the "Rabbinic Workshop" (Officina Rabbinica), the rabbinic world where the student plays a role and a reformation of a reformation always takes place, the world where the mirror was created and manufactured. Part II deals with the historical environment, the world of reference of rabbinic Judaism in Palestine and in the Hellenistic Diaspora (Reflecting Roman Religion); Part III focuses on magic and the sciences, as ancient (political and empirical) activities of influence in the double meaning of receiving and adopting something and of attempt to produce an effect on persons and objects (Performing the Craft of Sciences and Magic). Part IV addresses the rabbinic concern with texts (Reflecting on Languages and Texts) as the main area of "influence" of the rabbinic academy in a space between the texts of the past and the real world of the present.
Author : Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004171967
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book deals with the coordinates of a oemodernitya as premises of Jewish philosophy in the Renaissance and early modern period.
Author : Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110604493
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Alienated Wisdom written by Giuseppe Veltri and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and then Greco-Roman (and Christian) thought in connection with the query into the history and genealogy of wisdom and knowledge. Our journey into the history of the denomination ‘Jewish philosophy’ will include a leg that will lead us to certain declarations of political, moral, and scientific principles, and then on to the birth of what is called philosophia perennis or, in Christian circles, prisca theologia. Our subject of inquiry will thus be the birth of the concept of Jewish philosophy, Jewish theology and Jewish philosophy of religion. A special emphasis will fall on the topic treated in the last part of this study: Jewish scepticism, a theme that involves a philosophical attitude founded on dialectical "enquiry", as the etymology of the Greek word skepsis properly means.
Author : Maud Kozodoy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812291816
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus written by Maud Kozodoy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the summer of 1391, when anti-Jewish riots spread across the Iberian peninsula, the person subsequently known as Honoratus de Bonafide, a Christian physician and astrologer at the court of King Joan I of Aragon, had been the Jew Profayt Duran of Perpignan. The precise details of Duran's conversion are lost to us. We do know, however, that like many other conversos, he began to conduct his professional and public life as a Christian even as he rejected that new identity in private. What is extraordinary in his case is that instead of quietly making his individual way, he began to write works in Hebrew—including anti-Christian polemics—that revealed his intense inner commitment to remaining a Jew. Forced to reconceptualize Judaism under the pressures of his life as a converso, Duran elevated the principle of inner "intention" above that of ritual observance as the test of Jewish identity, ultimately claiming that the end purposes of Judaism can be attained through the study, memorization, and contemplation of the Hebrew Bible. Duran also conceived of Judaism as a profoundly rational religion, with a proud heritage of scientific learning; the interplay between scientific knowledge and Jewish identity took on a central role in his works. Drawing on archival sources as well as published and unpublished manuscripts, Maud Kozodoy marshals rarely examined facts about the consumption and transmission of the sciences between the medieval and early modern periods to illuminate the thought—and the faith—of one of Jewish history's most enigmatic and fascinating figures.
Author : Mauro Perani
Publisher : Casa Editrice Giuntina
ISBN 13 : 9788880572046
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Talmudic and Midrashic Fragments from the Italian Genizah written by Mauro Perani and published by Casa Editrice Giuntina. This book was released on 2004 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Borýsek
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111050564
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry written by Martin Borýsek and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish population of early modern Italy was characterised by its inner diversity, which found its expression in the coexistence of various linguistic, cultural and liturgical traditions, as well as social and economic patterns. The contributions in this volume aim to explore crucial questions concerning the self-perception and identity of early modern Italian Jews from new perspectives and angles.
Author : Neil Weinstock Netanel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199707332
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book From Maimonides to Microsoft written by Neil Weinstock Netanel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish copyright law is a rich body of jurisprudence that developed in parallel with modern copyright laws and the book privileges that preceded them. Jewish copyright law owes its origins to a reprinting ban that the Rome rabbinic court issued for three books of Hebrew grammar in 1518. It continues to be applied today, notably in a rabbinic ruling outlawing pirated software, issued at Microsoft's request. In From Maimonides to Microsoft, Professor Netanel traces the historical development of Jewish copyright law by comparing rabbinic reprinting bans with secular and papal book privileges and by relaying the stories of dramatic disputes among publishers of books of Jewish learning and liturgy.. He describes each dispute in its historical context and examines the rabbinic rulings that sought to resolve it. Remarkably, the rabbinic reprinting bans and copyright rulings address some of the same issues that animate copyright jurisprudence today: Is copyright a property right or just a right to receive fair compensation? How long should copyrights last? What purposes does copyright serve? While Jewish copyright law has borrowed from its secular law counterpart at key junctures, it fashions strikingly different answers to those key questions. The story of Jewish copyright law also intertwines with the history of the Jewish book trade and with steadfast efforts of rabbinic leaders to maintain their authority to regulate that trade in the face of the dramatic erosion of Jewish communal autonomy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book will thus be of considerable interest to students of Jewish law and history as well as copyright scholars and practitioners.
Author : Nadia Vidro
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004277056
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths written by Nadia Vidro and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.
