Iberian Jewry From Twilight To Dawn
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Author | : Abraham Gross |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004100534 |
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This volume depicts the world of a preacher, cabbalist, and biblical exegete who lived during the expulsions from Spain and Portugal. His literary works and thought are analyzed and put in their proper cultural and historical context.
Author | : Abraham Gross |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2023-07-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9004679154 |
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This volume depicts the world of a preacher, cabbalist, and biblical exegete who lived during the expulsions from Spain and Portugal. His literary works and thought are analyzed and put in their proper cultural and historical context.
Author | : Ruth Lamdan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2021-11-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004500936 |
Download A Separate People Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This major new contribution to the history of women examines the special status accorded to women in the Jewish communities of the Eastern Mediterranean provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period. Topics examined include their daily life and the social norms governing them, polygamy, divorce, child marriage, and the position of female slaves. Based on a detailed analysis of Hebrew and Arabic manuscript sources, legal and other, this first study of the subject in English opens up an almost unknown world of women to the modern researcher.
Author | : Rina Drory |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004117389 |
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Medieval Jewish literature from the 10th century onwards drew heavily on Arabic literary models. This important new study discusses the impact of Arabic literature on Jewish literature and medieval Jewish culture.
Author | : Sophia Menache |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2024-01-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004679189 |
Download Communication in the Jewish Diaspora Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although Jews lacked a political locus standi for a communication system in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, their involvement in trade and the close relations among Jewish communities fostered the development of effective channels of communication. This process responded primarily to security and socio-economic considerations but it has important implications for the development of communication systems as well. Written by some of the most outstanding researchers in the field of Jewish history, this collection offers a rich and consistent picture of the main developments in communications in the Jewish world before the era of mass-media. This pioneering research reconsiders the principal means of communication among the Jewish communities in the Islamic world, Christian Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and the New World, from the seventh until the nineteenth centuries.
Author | : Nathaniel Deutsch |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004109094 |
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An exploration of the phenomenon of angelic vice regency in Late Antiquity. It comparatively examines figures from Judaism, Mandaeism, and Gnosticism, shedding new light, in particular, on the Jewish angel Metatron and the Mandaean light-being Abathur.
Author | : Coudert |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2023-08-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004679146 |
Download The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"If he had lived among the Greeks, he would now be numbered among the stars." So wrote Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in his epitaph for Francis Mercury van Helmont. Leibniz was not the only contemporary to admire and respect van Helmont, but although famous in his own day, he has been virtually ignored by modern historians. Yet his views influenced Leibniz, contributed to the development of modern science, and fostered the kind of ecumenicalism that made the concept of toleration conceivable. The progressive nature of van Helmont's thought was based on his deep commitment to the esoteric doctrines of the Lurianic Kabbalah. With his friend Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, van Helmont edited the Kabbala Denudata (1677-1684), the largest collection of Lurianic Kabbalistic texts available to Christians up to that time. Because the subject matter of this work appears so difficult and arcane, it has never been appreciated as a significant text for understanding the emergence of modern thought. However, one can find in it the basis for the faith in science, the belief in progress, and the pluralism characteristic of later western thought. The Lurianic Kabbalah thus deserves a place it has never received in histories of western scientific and cultural developments. Although van Helmont's efforts contributed to the development of religious toleration, his experience as a prisoner of the Inquisition accused of "Judaising" reveals the problematic relations between Christians and Jews during the early-modern period. New Inquisitional documents relating to van Helmont's imprisonment will be discussed to illustrate the difficulties faced by anyone advocating philo-semitism and toleration at the time.
Author | : Moshe Idel |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0300126263 |
Download Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Marvin Heller |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1999-02-11 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9004679235 |
Download Printing the Talmud Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first study on the subject, this is a bibliographical work on individual tractates published in the first half of the eighteenth-century, and the circumstances of their publication. Included are numerous reproductions of title and representative pages.
Author | : Yosef Kaplan |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-11-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004500944 |
Download An Alternative Path to Modernity Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The essays in this volume deal with the social and intellectual history of the Western Spanish and Portuguese Jews who established new communities in Northwestern Europe during the seventeenth century. The founders of these communities were mainly former Marranos, descendants of those Jews who had converted to Christianity in the closing years of the Middle Ages. After being separated from the Jewish world for many generations, they returned to Judaism and became an integral part of the Sephardi nation. Amsterdam became the metropolis of this new Jewish diaspora, which was characterised by both its involvement in colonial trade and its intellectual ferment. The reencounter of these Jews with Judaism was a complex affair, and for many of these former New Christians rabbinic Judaism aroused harsh criticism. In order to set the boundaries of their new identity, the leadership of the Sephardi communities of Amsterdam, Hamburg and London adopted a variety of strategies designed to rein in these wayward spirits. This process of socialisation into the Jewish world created a new type of Judaism, and those whose Jewish life was framed by this new amalgam can be considered the precursors of modernity in European Jewish society.