Mantova e la qabbalah
Author: Giulio Busi
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13:
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Kabbalah and Modernity
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2010-09-15
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 900418287X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe persistence of kabbalistic groups in the twentieth century has largely been ignored or underestimated by scholars of religion. Only recently have scholars began to turn their attention to the many-facetted roles that kabbalistic doctrines and schools have played in nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture. Often, and necessarily, this new interest and openness went along with a contextualization and re-valuation of earlier scholarly approaches to kabbalah. This volume brings together leading representatives of this ongoing debate in order to break new ground for a better understanding and conceptualization of the role of kabbalah in modern religious, intellectual, and political discourse.
Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries
Author: Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-03-02
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9004222251
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJudah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference organized in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world.
Hasidic Art and the Kabbalah
Author: Batsheva Goldman-Ida
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9004290265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHasidic Art and the Kabbalah presents eight case studies of manuscripts, ritual objects, and folk art developed by Hasidic masters in the mid-eighteenth to late nineteenth centuries, whose form and decoration relate to sources in the Zohar, German Pietism, and Safed Kabbalah. Examined at the delicate and difficult to define interface between seemingly simple, folk art and complex ideological and conceptual outlooks which contain deep, abstract symbols, the study touches on aspects of object history, intellectual history, the decorative arts, and the history of religion. Based on original texts, the focus of this volume is on the subjective experience of the user at the moment of ritual, applying tenets of process philosophy and literary theory – Wolfgang Iser, Gaston Bachelard, and Walter Benjamin – to the analysis of objects.
Jews and Magic in Medici Florence
Author: Edward L. Goldberg
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011-08-06
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1442660139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the seventeenth century, Florence was the splendid capital of the Medici Grand Dukedom of Tuscany. Meanwhile, the Jews in its tiny Ghetto struggled to earn a living by any possible means, especially loan-sharking, rag-picking and second-hand dealing. They were viewed as an uncanny people with rare supernatural powers, and Benedetto Blanis—a businessman and aspiring scholar from a distinguished Ghetto dynasty—sought to parlay his alleged mastery of astrology, alchemy and Kabbalah into a grand position at the Medici Court. He won the patronage of Don Giovanni dei Medici, a scion of the ruling family, and for six tumultuous years their lives were inextricably linked. Edward Goldberg reveals the dramas of daily life behind the scenes in the Pitti Palace and in the narrow byways of the Florentine Ghetto, using thousands of new documents from the Medici Granducal Archive. He shows that truth—especially historical truth—can be stranger than fiction, when viewed through the eyes of the people most immediately involved.
Renaissance and Rebirth
Author: Brian Ogren
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9004177647
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMetempsychosis was a prominent element in Renaissance conceptualizations of the human being, the universe, and the place of the human person in the universe. A variety of concepts emerged in debates about metempsychosis: human to human reincarnation, human to vegetal, human to animal, and human to angelic transmigration. As a complex and changing doctrine, metempsychosis gives us a well-placed window for viewing the complex and dynamic contours of Jewish thought in late fifteenth century Italy; as such, it enables us to evaluate Jewish thought in relation to non-Jewish Italian developments. This book addresses the problematic question of the roles and achievements of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions.
Non contrarii, ma diversi
Author: Autori Vari
Publisher: Viella Libreria Editrice
Published: 2020-10-06T14:39:00+02:00
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 8833134350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book brings together a number of contributions that throw a new light on the history of Jewish communities in late-medieval and early modern Italy (15th-18th centuries). The different, monographic approaches form a homogeneous interpretation of this history, a collective and original reflection on the question of Jewish minority in a broader (Christian) society. Both the Christian and the Jewish sides are taken into consideration, and an important number of chapters consider concrete situations, Jewish texts and authors very rarely studied in the research on Jewish-Christian relation.
Juvenile Sexuality, Kabbalah, and Catholic Reformation in Italy
Author: Roni Weinstein
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9004167579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis detailed introduction to the text "Tiferet Bachurim" (The Glory of Youth), written in the mid-seventeenth century in Ferrara, Italy, discusses the profound changes in Jewish Italian communities regarding sexuality, control of the juvenile body, and the role of Kabbalah in The Jewish Counter Reformation.
"Let the Wise Listen and add to Their Learning" (Prov 1:5)
Author: Constanza Cordoni
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2016-06-20
Total Pages: 857
ISBN-13: 3110429330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Festschrift honours Günter Stemberger on the occasion of his 75th birthday on 7 December 2015 and contains 41 articles from colleagues and students. The studies focus on a variety of subjects pertaining to the history, religion and culture of Judaism – and, to a lesser extent, of Christianity – from late antiquity and the Middle Ages to the modern era.
A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths
Author: Nadia Vidro
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-06-05
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9004277056
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.
