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Kabbalah in Italy 1280-1510 : a survey / Moshe Idel

Idel, Mosheh, 1947-

New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, c2011

xi, 494 S. ; 24 cm

Englisch

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 -- 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.

Formerly CIP Uk. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 (Online-Ausgabe)

0-300-12626-3 ((hbk.) £40.00); 978-0-300-12626-6 ((hbk.) £40.00)

015710193

627175880

OCoLC: 732286726     

BM526

296.1609450902 ; 296.1/609450902     Ähnliche Literatur

Basisklassifikation: 11.29 (Judentum: Sonstiges) <Religionswissenschaft>

* Abulʿafyah, Avraham ben Shemuʾel [1240-1291]      Zum Register

* Reḳanati, Menaḥem ben Binyamin [ca. 13/14. Jh.]      Zum Register

* Alemann, Jochanan Ben-Isaak [ca. 1434/35 -nach1504]      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel -- 1240-approximately 1292 ; Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin -- active 13th century-14th century ; Cabala -- Italy -- History ; Mysticism -- Judaism -- History

Abulafia, Abraham ben Samuel, 1240-ca. 1292 ; Recanati, Menahem ben Benjamin, 13th/14th cent ; Cabala / Italy / History ; Mysticism / Judaism / History

"The following survey of Kabbalah in Italy was inspired by a series of lectures I delivered at the opening of the Avraham Goldstein-Goren Center of Jewish Studies at the Università degli Studi in Milan in the winter of 1998" -- p. ix

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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 -- 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