Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance

by Zinguer, Ilana; Melamed, Abraham; Shalev, Zur

• ISBN13: 9789004212558
• ISBN10: 9004212558
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-31
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

Christian Hebraism came to its full fruition in the seventeenth century. However, interest in Jewish and Hebraic sources had already increased during the early Renaissance, as an integral part of the renewed attention to ancient cultures, mostly Greek and Roman, as well as eastern cultures from Egypt to India. This volume presents a selection of papers from the international conference Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance (University of Haifa, May, 2009), that trace the humanist encounter with Hebrew and Jewish sources during that period. The chapters included in this volume not only illuminate the ways in which Christian scholars encountered Hebraic sources and integrated them into their general worldview, but also present the encounters of Jewish scholars with humanist culture.

Author Biography

Ilana Zinguer is Professor Emerita in Renaissance French Literature and ex-Chair of The Center for the Study of French Civilization at the University of Haifa. Her publications include discussions of French literature, emblems, women, travels, alchemy, medicine, Hebrew, and Hebraic sources of the Renaissance. Abraham Melamed is Professor of Jewish Philosophy and Wolfson Chair for the Study of Jewish Cultural Heritage at the University of Haifa. He has published widely on medieval and Renaissance Jewish intellectual history and political philosophy. Zur Shalev, Ph.D. (2004) in History, Princeton University, is researching and teaching early modern European history at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published works on geography, cartography, travel, pilgrimage, Hebraism, and Orientalism.

Table of Contents

List of Participants	p. ix
List of Figures	p. x
Foreword	p. xi
Introductions
Abraham Melamed	p. 1
Ilana Zinguer	p. 7
Kabbalah and Mysticism
Giulio Camillo's Memory Theatre and the Kabbalah	p. 14
Entering the Labyrinth: On the Hebraic and Kabbalistic Universe of Egidio da Viterbo	p. 27
Whither Kabbalah? Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Kabbalah, and the Disputations against Judicial Astrology	p. 43
Philosophy and the Humanities
The Abravanel
A Paradigm in Isaac Abravanel's Encounter with Renaissance Culture	p. 54
Leone Ebreo's Dialoghi d'amore as a Pivotal Document of Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Rome	p. 62
Philosophical Aspects
The Immortality of the Soul and Opening Up to the Christian World: A Chapter in Early Modern Jewish-Italian Literature	p. 80
Authority vs. Authenticity. The Leiden Debate on Bible and Hebrew (1575-1650)	p. 116
Conversos, Language and Baroque
De la pureté de sang aux XVe et XVIe siècles	p. 138
L'implicite à propos des Juifs de Rome	p. 154
Vers une sémiotique du Judaïsme à l'âge baroque	p. 164
Literature
Moses Zacuto Poet of Kabbalah	p. 170
Le Rôle de la poésie Hébraïque dans I'enseignement de Charles Utenhove	p. 182
Hebraism and Geographical Thought
The Role of Early Renaissance Geographical Discoveries in Yohanan Alemanno's Messianic Thought	p. 192
Kabbale et cosmographie, de Guillaume Postel à Jacques d'Auzoles-Lapeyre	p. 211
Conclusion
Race, Antisemitism and the Renaissance in Fascist Italy	p. 236
General Bibliography	p. 251
Index	p. 276
Figures	p. 292
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