The beginning of the world in Renaissance Jewish thought : Ma'aseh bereshit in Italian Jewish philosophy and kabbalah, 1492-1535 /

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Author / Creator:	Ogren, Brian, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, 1873-9008 ; volume 27 Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 27.
Subject:	Allemanno, Johanan ben Isaac, -- approximately 1435-approximately 1504 -- Criticism and interpretation. Abravanel, Isaac, -- 1437-1508 -- Criticism and interpretation. León, -- Hebreo, -- approximately 1460- -- Criticism and interpretation. Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, -- 1463-1494 -- Criticism and interpretation. Abravanel, Isaac, -- 1437-1508. Allemanno, Johanan ben Isaac, -- approximately 1435-approximately 1504. León, -- Hebreo, -- approximately 1460- Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni, -- 1463-1494. Creation -- Early works to 1800. Jewish philosophy -- Italy -- History -- 15th century. Jewish philosophy -- Italy -- History -- 16th century. Cabala -- Italy -- History -- 15th century. Cabala -- Italy -- History -- 16th century. Creation in rabbinical literature. Cabala. Creation. Creation in rabbinical literature. Jewish philosophy. Italy. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Early works. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12875921

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ISBN:	9789004330634 9004330631 9789004330627 9004330623
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
Summary:	In 'The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought', Brian Ogren offers a deep analysis of late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time. Ogren's book is the very first to seriously juxtapose the thought of the great Jewish thinker Yohanan Alemanno, Alemanno's famed Christian interlocutor, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the important Iberian exegete active in Italy, Isaac Abravanel, and Abravanel's renowned philosopher son Judah, known as Leone Ebreo. By bringing these thinkers together, this book presents a new understanding of early modern uses of Jewish texts and hermeneutics. Ogren successfully demonstrates that the syntheses of philosophy and Kabbalah carried out by these four intellectuals in their quests to understand the beginning itself marked a new beginning in Western thought, characterized by simultaneous continuity and rupture.
Other form:	Print version: Ogren, Brian. Beginning of the world in Renaissance Jewish thought. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004330627

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