ISBN:
9789004689725
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (608 pages)
,
illustrations
Year of publication:
2025
Series Statement:
Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion 5
Series Statement:
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Obadiah Sforno: Light of the Nations : Or ʿAmmim / Lumen Gentium
DDC:
181/.06
Keywords:
Jewish philosophy
;
Philosophy, Medieval
Abstract:
Light of the Nations is a philosophical work written by the Jewish intellectual and eminent biblical commentator Obadiah Sforno (ca. 1475–1550). His treatise, an apology for both Jewish and universal monotheistic beliefs, was published in Hebrew in 1537 under the title Or ‘Ammim and was translated by the author into Latin as Lumen Gentium in 1548. Written in the style of a classical medieval Scholastic summa, the treatise’s multilingual and multicultural dimensions reveal key humanist ideas that prevailed in the cities of northern Italy during the early modern period, while also speaking to its author’s abiding exegetical rationality
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004689725