Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Author: Ilana Zinguer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 9004212558

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This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of Hebrew sources, while their Jewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.


Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

Author: Ilana Zinguer

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-08-25

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9004212566

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Christian Hebraism came to its full fruition in the seventeenth century. However, interest in Jewish and Hebraic sources had already increased during the early Renaissance, as an integral part of the renewed attention to ancient cultures, mostly Greek and Roman, as well as eastern cultures – from Egypt to India. This volume presents a selection of papers from the international conference Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance (University of Haifa, May, 2009), that trace the humanist encounter with Hebrew and Jewish sources during that period. The chapters included in this volume not only illuminate the ways in which Christian scholars encountered Hebraic sources and integrated them into their general worldview, but also present the encounters of Jewish scholars with humanist culture.


Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance

Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance

Author: Nadia Zeldes

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-10-28

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1498573428

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Using the Hebrew Book of Josippon as a prism, this study analyzes the dialogue surrounding Jewish history among Renaissance humanists. Notwithstanding its focus on the Renaissance, the author’s analysis extends to the consumption of Josippon in the High Middle Ages and into interpretations by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century humanists. With a focus on both Christian and Jewish discourse, the author examines the mythical and historical narratives that developed from Josippon.


The Hebrew Republic

The Hebrew Republic

Author: Eric Nelson

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2010-03-30

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780674050587

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According to a commonplace narrative, the rise of modern political thought in the West resulted from secularization—the exclusion of religious arguments from political discourse. But in this pathbreaking work, Eric Nelson argues that this familiar story is wrong. Instead, he contends, political thought in early-modern Europe became less, not more, secular with time, and it was the Christian encounter with Hebrew sources that provoked this radical transformation. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars began to regard the Hebrew Bible as a political constitution designed by God for the children of Israel. Newly available rabbinic materials became authoritative guides to the institutions and practices of the perfect republic. This thinking resulted in a sweeping reorientation of political commitments. In the book’s central chapters, Nelson identifies three transformative claims introduced into European political theory by the Hebrew revival: the argument that republics are the only legitimate regimes; the idea that the state should coercively maintain an egalitarian distribution of property; and the belief that a godly republic would tolerate religious diversity. One major consequence of Nelson’s work is that the revolutionary politics of John Milton, James Harrington, and Thomas Hobbes appear in a brand-new light. Nelson demonstrates that central features of modern political thought emerged from an attempt to emulate a constitution designed by God. This paradox, a reminder that while we may live in a secular age, we owe our politics to an age of religious fervor, in turn illuminates fault lines in contemporary political discourse.


Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660)

Christian Hebraism in the Reformation Era (1500-1660)

Author: Stephen G. Burnett

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 365

ISBN-13: 9004222480

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The Reformation transformed Christian Hebraism from the pursuit of a few into an academic discipline. This book explains that transformation by focusing on how authors, printers, booksellers, and censors created a public discussion of Hebrew and Jewish texts.


“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”

“I have always loved the Holy Tongue”

Author: Anthony Grafton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2011-05-03

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0674058496

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“[An] extraordinary book.” —New Republic Fusing high scholarship with high drama, Anthony Grafton and Joanna Weinberg uncover a secret and extraordinary aspect of a legendary Renaissance scholar’s already celebrated achievement. The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) is known to us through his pedantic namesake in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. But in this book, the real Casaubon emerges as a genuine literary hero, an intrepid explorer in the world of books. With a flair for storytelling reminiscent of Umberto Eco, Grafton and Weinberg follow Casaubon as he unearths the lost continent of Hebrew learning—and adds this ancient lore to the well-known Renaissance revival of Latin and Greek. The mystery begins with Mark Pattison’s nineteenth-century biography of Casaubon. Here we encounter the Protestant Casaubon embroiled in intellectual quarrels with the Italian and Catholic orator Cesare Baronio. Setting out to understand the nature of this imbroglio, Grafton and Weinberg discover Casaubon’s knowledge of Hebrew. Close reading and sedulous inquiry were Casaubon’s tools in recapturing the lost learning of the ancients—and these are the tools that serve Grafton and Weinberg as they pore through pre-1600 books in Hebrew, and through Casaubon’s own manuscript notebooks. Their search takes them from Oxford to Cambridge, from Dublin to Cambridge, Massachusetts, as they reveal how the scholar discovered the learning of the Hebrews—and at what cost.


Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden

Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden

Author: Jason P. Rosenblatt

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2006-01-19

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 0199286132

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'Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi' examines John Selden and his rabbinic and especially talmudic publications, which take up most of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his most mature scholarship. It traces the cultural influence of these works on some early modern British poets


Cervantes the Poet

Cervantes the Poet

Author: Gabrielle Ponce-Hegenauer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 131651739X

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Through analysis of Cervantes' status as an itinerant poet, this book overturns conventional theories of the modern novel's genesis.


Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2017

Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2017

Author: Bill Rebiger

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-10-23

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 3110527979

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The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general.


Preachers of the Italian Ghetto

Preachers of the Italian Ghetto

Author: David B. Ruderman

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780520077355

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By the middle of the sixteenth century, Jews in the cities of Italy were being crowded into compulsory ghettos as a result of the oppressive policies of Pope Paul IV and his successors. Forced to listen to Christian preachers seeking their conversion, they flocked to hear the Jewish preachers who regularly delivered sermons designed to uplift and educate them. The sermons of these Jewish preachers provide a remarkable vantage point from which to view the Jewish social and cultural landscape of the early modern period. Exploring the fraction of this vast literature that remains to us and that has been generally neglected, six leading scholars of Italian Jewish cultural history find treasures of information and insight. Their essays show how, in various times and places, a number of ghetto preachers interpreted reality for their constituencies. They illuminate from varying perspectives the transformation of Italian Jewish culture in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century; the adjustment of a beleaguered but proud minority to its ghetto segregation; the openness of Jews and their surprising appropriations of the regnant cultural tastes of the surrounding society; and the restructuring of thought processes, ritual practices, and social organization engendered by the new urban neighborhoods. What was the role of the preacher as a shaper of Jewish culture? How did he present his ideas to the audience? In what way did he serve as a bridge between the ghetto and the world outside, between old and new conventions, and between elite and popular modes of thought? Judah Moscato in Mantua, Judah del Bene in Ferrara, Azariah Figo in Pisa and Venice, Leon Modena in Venice, Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen in Padua, Abraham of Sant'Angelo in Bologna, and Isaac de Lattes in Mantua, Venice, and elsewhere are the rabbis whose published sermons the authors investigate. Among the subjects they consider are the influences of Renaissance and Baroque thinking on the content and style of the sermons, the interplay of ideas and speaking techniques with the Christian world, the "popularization" of the kabbalah, and the eulogy as a successful new form of sermon in Jewish society. The story of how these preachers reflected and shaped the culture of their listeners, who felt the pressure of cramped urban life as well as political, economic, and religious persecution, is finally beginning to be told.