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The beginning of the world in Renaissance Jewish thought : Ma'aseh bereshit in Italian Jewish philosophy and kabbalah, 1492-1535 / by Brian Ogren.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ogren, Brian.
- Series:
- Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 27.
- Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; 27
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Creation--Early works to 1800.
- Creation.
- Jewish philosophy--Italy--History--15th century.
- Jewish philosophy.
- Jewish philosophy--Italy--History--16th century.
- Cabala--Italy--History--15th century.
- Cabala.
- Cabala--Italy--History--16th century.
- Creation in rabbinical literature.
- Allemanno, Johanan ben Isaac, approximately 1435-approximately 1504--Criticism and interpretation.
- Allemanno, Johanan ben Isaac.
- Abravanel, Isaac, 1437-1508--Criticism and interpretation.
- Abravanel, Isaac.
- León, Hebreo, approximately 1460---Criticism and interpretation.
- León.
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, 1463-1494--Criticism and interpretation.
- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (210 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Brill 2016
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought , Brian Ogren offers a deep analysis of late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time. Ogren’s book is the very first to seriously juxtapose the thought of the great Jewish thinker Yohanan Alemanno, Alemanno’s famed Christian interlocutor, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the important Iberian exegete active in Italy, Isaac Abravanel, and Abravanel’s renowned philosopher son Judah, known as Leone Ebreo. By bringing these thinkers together, this book presents a new understanding of early modern uses of Jewish texts and hermeneutics. Ogren successfully demonstrates that the syntheses of philosophy and Kabbalah carried out by these four intellectuals in their quests to understand the beginning itself marked a new beginning in Western thought, characterized by simultaneous continuity and rupture.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Introduction: In the Beginning
- 1 On the Wisdom of Language—Yohanan Alemanno on the Word of God and the Simulacrum of Creation
- 2 On the Wisdom of Christ—Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the Truth of the Son and the Creation of the World
- 3 On the Wisdom of Angels—Isaac Abravanel on the Separate Intellects, Bodies, and the Garments of Creation
- 4 On the Wisdom of Beauty—Leone Ebreo on Art and Creation
- 5 Hylomorphic Time—Yohanan Alemanno on Form, Matter, and the Days of Creation
- 6 Edifices and Days—Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Formation, Teshuvah, and the Return to Christ
- 7 Ex-Nihilo Creation—Isaac Abravanel on the Formation of the World, Evil, and Peace
- 8 Chaos and Divine Spirit—Leone Ebreo on Greek Mythology, Jewish Lore, and the Gendered Creation of the Universe
- Concluding Remarks: On Sources and Influences in Relation to “The Beginning”
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-33063-1
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004330634 DOI
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