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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Main Author: Idel, Mosheh 1947- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: New Haven, Conn. London Yale University Press c2011
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)
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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
Item Description:Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0300126263