Isaac Abarbanel's stance toward tradition : defense, dissent, and dialogue / Eric Lawee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawee, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Doctrines.

Judaism.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Tradition (Judaism).

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.

Bible.

Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508--Teachings.

Abravanel, Isaac.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the 2002 Nauchman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic Scholarship presented by the Canadian Jewish Book AwardsFinalist, 2002 Scholarship Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award presented by the National Jewish Book CouncilFinancier and courtier to the kings of Portugal, Spain, and Italy and Spanish Jewry's foremost representative at court at the time of its 1492 expulsion, Isaac Abarbanel was also Judaism's leading scholar at the turn of the sixteenth century. His work has had a profound influence on both his contemporaries and later thinkers, Jewish and Christian. Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition is the first full-length study of Abarbanel in half a century. The book considers a wide range of Abarbanel's writings, focusing for the first time on the dominant exegetical side of his intellectual achievements as reflected in biblical commentaries and messianic writings. Author Eric Lawee approaches Abarbanel's work from the perspective of his negotiations with texts and teachings bequeathed to him from the Jewish past. The work provides insight into the important spiritual and intellectual developments in late medieval and early modern Judaism while offering a portrait of a complex scholar whose stance before tradition combined conservatism with creativity and reverence with daring.

Contents:

Front Matter Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Bibliographic Notes / Abbreviations Introduction Life and Contexts Works and Traditions "To the Help of the Lord Against the Mighty" Rabbinic Legacy: Background and Parameters The Rabbinic Hermeneutic: Midrash in the Biblical Commentaries In Search of Classical Jewish Eschatology: Yeshu'ot meshi Historical Thinking, Critical Reading, and the Study of Classical Jewish Texts Abarbanel and Tradition: Six Trends Back Matter Notes

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-312) and index.

ISBN:

9780791489888

0791489884

9780585426464

0585426465

OCLC:

50790963