Kabbalah in Italy 1280-1510: a survey
"The following survey of Kabbalah in Italy was inspired by a series of lectures I delivered at the opening of the Avraham Goldstein-Goren Center of Jewish Studies at the Università degli Studi in Milan in the winter of 1998" -- p. ix
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Format: | Print Book |
Language: | English |
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Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New Haven, Conn. London
Yale University Press
c2011
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In: | Year: 2011 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Abulʿafyah, Avraham ben Shemuʾel 1240-1291
B Reḳanati, Menaḥem ben Binyamin ca. 13/14. Jh. B Alemann, Jochanan Ben-Isaak ca. 1434/35 -nach1504 |
Further subjects: | B
Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin (active 13th century-14th century)
B Cabala Italy History B Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-ca. 1292 B 14th cent / Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 13th B Cabala (Italy) History B Mysticism Judaism History B Mysticism Judaism History B Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel (1240-approximately 1292) |
Summary: | "The following survey of Kabbalah in Italy was inspired by a series of lectures I delivered at the opening of the Avraham Goldstein-Goren Center of Jewish Studies at the Università degli Studi in Milan in the winter of 1998" -- p. ix Kabbalah : introductory remarks -- Abraham Abulafia and ecstatic kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia's activity in Italy -- Ecstatic kabbalah as an experiential lore -- Abraham Abulafia's hermeneutics -- Eschatological themes and divine names in Abulafia's kabbalah -- Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin : thirteenth-century kabbalistic and Ashkenazi manuscripts in italy -- R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -- Menahem Recanati as a theosophical-theurgical kabbalist -- Menahem Recanati's hermeneutics -- Ecstatic kabbalah from the fourteenth through mid-fifteenth centuries -- The kabbalistic-philosophical-magical exchanges in Italy -- Prisca theologia : R. Isaac Abravanel, Leone Ebreo, and R. Elijah Hayyim of Genazzano -- R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -- Jewish mystical thought in Lorenzo il Magnifico's Florence -- Other mystical and magical literatures in Renaissance Florence -- Spanish kabbalists in Italy after the expulsion -- Diverging types of kabbalah in late-fifteenth-century Italy -- Jewish kabbalah in Christian garb -- Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -- Astromagical pneumatic anthropoids from medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -- The trajectory of eastern kabbalah and its reverberations in Italy -- Concluding remarks |
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Item Description: | Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index |
Physical Description: | xi, 494 S., 24 cm |
ISBN: | 0300126263 |