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Christian Hebraism came to its full fruition in the seventeenth century. However, interest in Jewish and Hebraic sources had already increased during the early Renaissance, as an integral part of the renewed attention to ancient cultures, mostly Greek and Roman, as well as eastern cultures – from Egypt to India. This volume presents a selection of papers from the international conference Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance (University of Haifa, May, 2009), that trace the humanist encounter with Hebrew and Jewish sources during that period. The chapters included in this volume not only illuminate the ways in which Christian scholars encountered Hebraic sources and integrated them into their general worldview, but also present the encounters of Jewish scholars with humanist culture.

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Author:   Ilana Zinguer ,  Abraham Melamed ,  Zur Shalev
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   45
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.674kg
ISBN:  

9789004212558

ISBN 10:   9004212558
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   25 August 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English, French

Table of Contents

Part I – Kabbalah and Mysticism Giulio Camillo’s Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah Lina Bolzoni Entering the Labyrinth: On the Hebraic and Kabbalistic Universe of Egidio da Viterbo Daniel Stein-Kokin Whither Kabbalah? Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Kabbalah, and the Disputations against Judicial Astrology Sheila J. Rabin Part II – Philosophy and the Humanities A - The Abravanel A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter with Renaissance Culture Cédric Cohen Skalli Leone Ebreo’s Dialoghi d’amore as a Pivotal Document of Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome James Nelson Novoa B - Philosophical Aspects The Immortality of the Soul and Opening Up to the Christian World: A Chapter in Early Modern Jewish-Italian Literature Alessandro Guetta Authority vs. Authenticity. The Leiden Debate on Bible and Hebrew (1575-1650) Arthur Eyffinger C - Conversos, Language and Baroque De la pureté de sang aux XVe et XVIe siècles Annie Molinié et Béatrice Perez L'implicite à propos des Juifs de Rome Ilana Zinguer Vers une sémiotique du Judaïsme à l'âge baroque Georges Molinié D - Literature Moses Zacuto Poet of Kabbalah Dvora Bregman Le Rôle de la poésie Hébraïque dans l’enseignement de Charles Utenhove Philip Ford E - Hebraism and Geographical Thought The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in Yohanan Alemanno's Messianic Thought Fabrizio Lelli Kabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel à Jacques d'Auzoles-Lapeyre Frank Lestringant Conclusion Race, Antisemitism and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy David Baum

Reviews

This excellent volume presents papers from a conference at the University of Haifa (2009) and serves as a companion to the ground-breaking expanded horizons of Jewish Renaissance scholarship led by Moshe Idel, Robert Bonfil, and David Ruderman. It makes a positive contribution to the prior Baronian anti-lachyrmose historiography Renaissance scholarship of C. Roth, M. A. Shulvass, A. Milano, and A. Lesley. Dr. David B. Levy, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews (2012) Vol. 2, No. 1

""This excellent volume presents papers from a conference at the University of Haifa (2009) and serves as a companion to the ground-breaking expanded horizons of Jewish Renaissance scholarship led by Moshe Idel, Robert Bonfil, and David Ruderman. It makes a positive contribution to the prior Baronian “anti-lachyrmose historiography” Renaissance scholarship of C. Roth, M. A. Shulvass, A. Milano, and A. Lesley."" - Dr. David B. Levy, in: Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews Vol. 2, No. 1 (2012)

Author Information

Ilana Zinguer is Professor Emerita in Renaissance French Literature and ex-Chair of The Center for the Study of French Civilization at the Univesity of Haifa. Her publications include discussions of French literature, emblems, women, travels, alchemy, medicine, Hebrew, and Hebraic sources of the Renaissance. Abraham Melamed is Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Wolfson Chair for the Study of Jewish Cultural Heritage at the University of Haifa. He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance Jewish intellectual history and political philosophy. Zur Shalev, Ph.D. (2004) in History, Princeton University, is researching and teaching early modern European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published works on geography, cartography, travel, pilgrimage, Hebraism, and Orientalism.

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