Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 : a survey /

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Author / Creator:	Idel, Moshe, 1947- author.
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011] ©2011
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 494 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, -- 1240-approximately 1292. Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, -- active 13th century-14th century. Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, -- 1240-approximately 1292. Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, -- active 13th century-14th century. Cabala -- Italy -- History. Mysticism -- Judaism -- History. Cabala. Mysticism -- Judaism. Italy. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11300617

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ISBN:	9780300155877 0300155875 9780300126266 0300126263
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	This survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah.
Other form:	Print version: Idel, Moshe, 1947- Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300126266

Table of Contents:

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
Two 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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