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Author : Chaim Wirszubski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pico Della Mirandola's Encounter with Jewish Mysticism written by Chaim Wirszubski and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian P. Copenhaver
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674242181
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Magic and the Dignity of Man written by Brian P. Copenhaver and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This book is nothing less than the definitive study of a text long considered central to understanding the Renaissance and its place in Western culture.” —James Hankins, Harvard University Pico della Mirandola died in 1494 at the age of thirty-one. During his brief and extraordinary life, he invented Christian Kabbalah in a book that was banned by the Catholic Church after he offered to debate his ideas on religion and philosophy with anyone who challenged him. Today he is best known for a short speech, the Oration on the Dignity of Man, written in 1486 but never delivered. Sometimes called a “Manifesto of the Renaissance,” this text has been regarded as the foundation of humanism and a triumph of secular rationality over medieval mysticism. Brian Copenhaver upends our understanding of Pico’s masterwork by re-examining this key document of modernity. An eminent historian of philosophy, Copenhaver shows that the Oration is not about human dignity. In fact, Pico never wrote an Oration on the Dignity of Man and never heard of that title. Instead he promoted ascetic mysticism, insisting that Christians need help from Jews to find the path to heaven—a journey whose final stages are magic and Kabbalah. Through a rigorous philological reading of this much-studied text, Copenhaver transforms the history of the idea of dignity and reveals how Pico came to be misunderstood over the course of five centuries. Magic and the Dignity of Man is a seismic shift in the study of one of the most remarkable thinkers of the Renaissance.
Author : Robert Singerman
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027216502
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Jewish Translation History written by Robert Singerman and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classified bibliographic resource for tracing the history of Jewish translation activity from the Middle Ages to the present day, providing the researcher with over a thousand entries devoted solely to the Jewish role in the east-to-west transmission of Greek and Arab learning and science into Latin or Hebrew. Other major sections extend the coverage to modern times, taking special note of the absorption of European literature into the Jewish cultural orbit via Hebrew, Yiddish, or Judezmo translations, for instance, or the translation and reception of Jewish literature written in Jewish languages into other languages such as Arabic, English, French, German, or Russian. This polyglot bibliography, the first of its kind, contains over 2,600 entries, is enhanced by a vast number of additional bibliographic notes leading to reviews and related resources, and is accompanied by both an author and a subject index.
Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192856413
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Byzantine and Renaissance Philosophy written by Peter Adamson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Adamson presents an engaging and wide-ranging introduction to two great intellectual cultures: Byzantium and the Italian Renaissance. First he tells the story of philosophy in the Eastern Christian world, from the 8th century to the 15th century, then he explores the rebirth of philosophy in Italy in the era of Machiavelli and Galileo.
Author : Olav Hammer
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047431510
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Polemical Encounters written by Olav Hammer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-09-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its historical development from late antiquity to the present, western esotericism has repeatedly been the issue of polemical discourse. This volume engages the polemical structures that underlie esoteric identities and the controversy about esoteric currents in European history.
Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155053782
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism written by Moshe Idel and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders. After surveying the variety of scholarly approaches to religion, the author also offers what he proposes as an eclectic approach, and a perspectivist one. The latter recommends to examine religious phenomena from a variety of perspectives. The author investigates the specific issue of the pillar in Jewish mysticism by comparing it to the archaic resort to pillars recurring in rural societies. Given the fact that the ascent of the soul and pillars constituted the concerns of two main Romanian scholars of religion, Ioan P. Culianu and Mircea Eliade, Idel resorts to their views, and in the Concluding Remarks analyzes the emergence of Eliade's vision of Judaism on the basis of neglected sources.
Author : Karl Erich Grözinger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110871750
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Mysticism, Magic and Kabbalah in Ashkenazi Judaism written by Karl Erich Grözinger and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921–2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.
Author : Pico della Mirandola
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107015871
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Pico Della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man written by Pico della Mirandola and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Pico della Mirandola's most famous work, with extensive notes and commentary.
Author : Andrea Gondos
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438479735
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Kabbalah in Print written by Andrea Gondos and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates the impact of print culture on the spread of Jewish mysticism, focusing on Kabbalistic study guides by R. Yissakhar Baer of seventeenth-century Prague. How did Jewish mysticism go from arcane knowledge to popular spirituality? Kabbalah in Print examines the cultural impact of printing on the popularization, circulation, and transmission of Kabbalah in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Zohar, in particular, generated a large secondary literature of study guides and reference works that aimed to ease the linguistic and conceptual challenges of the text. The arrival of printed classics of Kabbalah was soon followed by the appearance of new literary genres—anthologies, digests, lexicons, and other learning aids—that mediated mystical primary sources to a community of readers not versed in this lore. A detailed investigation of the four works by R. Yissakhar Baer (ca.1580–ca.1629) of Prague sheds light on the literary strategies, pedagogic concerns, and religious motivations of secondary elites, a new cadre of authors empowered by the opportunities that printing opened up. Andrea Gondos highlights shifting intellectual and cultural boundaries in the early modern period, when the transmission of Kabbalah became a meeting point connecting various strata of Jewish society as well as Jewish and Christian intellectuals. Andrea Gondos is Emmy Noether Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the coeditor (with Daniel Maoz) of From Antiquity to the Postmodern World: Contemporary Jewish Studies in Canada.
Author : Harvey J. Hames
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004117150
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Art of Conversion written by Harvey J. Hames and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses Ramon Llull (ca. 1232-1316), the Christian missionary, philosopher and mystic, his relations with Jewish contemporaries, and how he integrated Jewish mystical teachings (Kabbalah) into his thought system so as to persuade the Jews to convert. Issues dealt with include Llull's attitude towards the Jews, his knowledge of Kabbalah, his theories regarding the Trinity and Incarnation (the Art), and the impact of his ideas on the Jewish community. The book challenges conventional scholarly opinion regarding Christian knowledge of contemporary Jewish thought and questions the assumption that Christians did not know or use Kabbalah before the Renaissance. Further, it suggests that Lull was well aware of ongoing intellectual and religious controversies within the Jewish community, as well as being the first Christian to acknowledge and appreciate Kabbalah as a tool for conversion.
Author : Nadia Zeldes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498573428
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance written by Nadia Zeldes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Hebrew Book of Josippon as a prism, this study analyzes the dialogue surrounding Jewish history among Renaissance humanists. Notwithstanding its focus on the Renaissance, the author’s analysis extends to the consumption of Josippon in the High Middle Ages and into interpretations by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century humanists. With a focus on both Christian and Jewish discourse, the author examines the mythical and historical narratives that developed from Josippon.
Author : Georgiana D. Hedesan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030679063
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Innovation in Esotericism from the Renaissance to the Present written by Georgiana D. Hedesan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the role of innovation in understanding the history of esotericism. It illustrates how innovation is a mechanism of negotiation whereby an idea is either produced against, or adapted from, an older set of concepts in order to respond to a present context. Featuring contributions from distinguished scholars of esotericism, it covers many different fields and themes including magic, alchemy, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, Tarot, apocalypticism and eschatology, Mesmerism, occultism, prophecy, and mysticism.
Author : Yvonne Petry
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004138013
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Gender, Kabbalah, and the Reformation written by Yvonne Petry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the thought of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581), a French religious thinker who relied on Jewish Kabbalah and its mystical understanding of gender to argue that a female messiah had arrived who would heal the political and religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe.
Author : Amos Edelheit
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004509461
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book A Philosopher at the Crossroads written by Amos Edelheit and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-16 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh account of one of the remarkable figures in the Renaissance, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494), by focusing on a neglected aspect of his work; his reading of scholasticism and its reception in the fifteenth century.
Author : Ovanes Akopyan
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004442278
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Debating the Stars in the Italian Renaissance written by Ovanes Akopyan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the astrological controversies that arose in Renaissance Italy in the wake of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola’s Disputationes adversus astrologiam divinatricem, published in 1496.
Author : Paolo Poccetti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110431890
Total Pages : 955 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book LATINITATIS RATIONES written by Paolo Poccetti and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles 50 contributions presented at the XVII International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics. They embrace essential topics of Latin linguistics with different theoretical and methodological approaches: phonetics, syntax, etymology and semantics, pragmatics and textual analysis. It is a useful resource for the study of comparative and general linguistics, not only for linguists but also for scholars of classical philology.
Author : Robert J. Wilkinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004288171
Total Pages : 599 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Tetragrammaton: Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God written by Robert J. Wilkinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a detailed and sustained account of Christian reception of the Hebrew divine name until the Seventeenth Century this book illustrates its vitality in several periods as a stimulus to both orthodox and heterodox theologies and imaginative structures
