RT Book
T1 Kabbalah in Italy 1280-1510: a survey
A1 Idel, Mosheh 1947-
LA English
PP New Haven, Conn. London
PB Yale University Press
YR 2011
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1611252954
AB "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
AB 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
NO Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BM526
SN 0300126263
SN 9780300126266
K1 Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel : 1240-approximately 1292
K1 Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin : active 13th century-14th century
K1 Cabala : Italy : History
K1 Mysticism : Judaism : History
K1 Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-ca. 1292
K1 Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 13th/14th cent