Don Isaac Abravanel, statesman & philosopher / B. Netanyahu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Netanyahu, B. (Benzion), 1910-2012.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508.

Abravanel, Isaac.

Rabbis--Biography.

Rabbis.

Jewish statesmen--Spain--Biography.

Jewish statesmen.

Spain.

Jewish statesmen--Italy--Biography.

Italy.

Jewish philosophers--Biography.

Jewish philosophers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiii, 350 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Fifth edition, revised and updated.

Other Title:

Don Isaac Abravanel, statesman and philosopher

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.

Summary:

Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a scholar of encyclopedic learning, a philosopher, an exegete, a prolific author, a mystic, and an apocalyptist. In Abravanel, B. Netanyahu suggests, two long lines of tradition met and concluded: that of medieval Jewish statesmen and that of medieval Jewish philosophers. In what is both a biography arid an exploration of Abravanel's thought and influence, Netanyahu describes how Abravanel illuminated the grave crisis and profound transformation experienced by the Jewish people after the Spanish expulsion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-335) and index.

ISBN:

0801434874

0801484855

OCLC:

38048008