Renaissance and rebirth : reincarnation in early modern Italian kabbalah / by Brian Ogren.
Through the theme of metempsychosis as discussed by scholars in Renaissance Italy, this book addresses the problematic question of the roles of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Series: | Studies in Jewish history and culture ;
v. 24. |
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Table of Contents:
- Metempsychosis, philosophy and Kabbalah : the debate in Candia
- The extra-debatal literature of Candia and questions of Identity
- Philosophical and mystical possibilities of metempsychosis : Isaac Abarbanel
- Spanish and Italian conceptions of metempsychosis in Judah Hayyat
- Elia Hayyim ben Binyamin of Genazzano, Prisca Theologia, and the two ancient paths to metempsychosis
- Unity and diversity in Gilgul : Yohanan Alemanno
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the allegorical veridicality of transmigration
- Marsilio Ficino, circularity and rebirth.