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Category : Judaism
Languages : it
Pages : 392
Book Description
Materia giudaica
Author: The Early Enoch Literature
Author: Gabriele BoccacciniPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004161546
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
This book provides an overview of the current debate about the early Enoch literature and its place in ancient Judaism, especially in relation to the Torah of Moses and to the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Talmudic and Midrashic Fragments from the Italian Genizah
Author: Mauro PeraniPublisher: Casa Editrice Giuntina
ISBN: 9788880572046
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Prophet of Renewal
Author: Alessandro GraziPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004518991
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This is an intellectual biography of the Italian Jewish writer and politician David Levi (1816-1898). Freemasonry, Saint-Simonianism, and the Enlightenment are his vessels for a new, secular, interpretation of Jewish identity and for innovative views on Judaism’s relation with modernity.
The Many Faces of Early Modern Italian Jewry
Author: Martin BorýsekPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3111050564
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The Jewish population of early modern Italy was characterised by its inner diversity, which found its expression in the coexistence of various linguistic, cultural and liturgical traditions, as well as social and economic patterns. The contributions in this volume aim to explore crucial questions concerning the self-perception and identity of early modern Italian Jews from new perspectives and angles.
Rewriting Maimonides
Author: Igor H. De SouzaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110557975
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Maimonideanism, the intellectual culture inspired by Maimonides’ writings, has received much recent attention. Yet a central aspect of Maimonideanism has been overlooked: the formal reception of the Guide of the Perplexed through commentary. In Rewriting Maimonides, Igor H. De Souza offers a comprehensive analysis of six early philosophical commentaries, written in Italy, Spain, and France, by some of Maimonides’ most loyal followers. The early commentaries represent the most creative period of exegesis of the Guide. De Souza’s analysis dispels the notion that the tradition of commentary on the Guide is monolithic. Rather, De Souza’s study illuminates how each commentator offers distinctive readings. Challenging the hierarchy of text and commentary, Rewriting Maimonides studies commentaries on the Guide as texts in their own right. De Souza approaches the form of commentary as a multifaceted cultural practice. Employing historical, philosophical, and literary methods, this publication fills a lacuna in the history of the Guide through a global perspective on commentary.
A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar across Disciplines and Faiths
Author: Nadia VidroPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004277056
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Universal Art. Hebrew Grammar Across Disciplines and Faiths reflects on medieval and early modern Hebrew linguistics as a discipline that crossed geographic and religious borders and linked up with a plethora of scholarly activities, from Judaeo-Arabic Bible translations to the Renaissance search for the holiest alphabet. This collection of articles presents a cross-section of new research avenues on Hebraism, Karaite, Rabbanite and Christian, with an emphasis on the transmission of linguistic ideas through time and space among different communities, cultures and religious currents. The resulting picture is one of intrinsic variation and dynamic growth as opposed to the linear paradigm of development, culmination and stagnation current in the historiography of Hebrew linguistics.
"Genizat Germania" - Hebrew and Aramaic Binding Fragments from Germany in Context
Author: Andreas LehnardtPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047443845
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
“Genizat Germania” is a project at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz focused on the search for and analysis of Hebrew and Aramaic binding fragments found in the books and files of archives and libraries. In recent years this systematic search has revealed several hundred new fragments, including some rare Talmudic, Midrashic and liturgical fragments. The new discoveries both in Germany and elsewhere in Europe have broadened the knowledge of Jewish literature in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. This volume collects the papers of international scholars which cover recent discoveries in Germany, the “European Genizah” or fragments found in Italy, Poland, Great Britain and Austria, the approaches of similar projects in Austria and the Czech Republic, as well as an extensive bibliography.
European Genizah
Author: Andreas LehnardtPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004427929
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This volume includes contributions presented at two conferences, in Mainz (Germany) and Jerusalem (Israel). The articles present a number of new discoveries of binding fragments in several European libraries and beyond.
Hebrew between Jews and Christians
Author: Daniel Stein KokinPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110389517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Though typically associated more with Judaism than Christianity, the status and sacrality of Hebrew has nonetheless been engaged by both religious cultures in often strikingly similar ways. The language has furthermore played an important, if vexed, role in relations between the two. Hebrew between Jews and Christians closely examines this frequently overlooked aspect of Judaism and Christianity's common heritage and mutual competition.