The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought

Ma’aseh Bereshit in Italian Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, 1492-1535

Brian Ogren (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2016
Brill (Verlag)
9789004330627 (ISBN)

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In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, Brian Ogren deeply analyzes late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time. Ogren examines uses of philosophy and Kabbalah in the thought of four important fifteenth century thinkers.

In The Beginning of the World in Renaissance Jewish Thought, Brian Ogren offers a deep analysis of late fifteenth century Italian Jewish thought concerning the creation of the world and the beginning of time. Ogren’s book is the very first to seriously juxtapose the thought of the great Jewish thinker Yohanan Alemanno, Alemanno’s famed Christian interlocutor, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, the important Iberian exegete active in Italy, Isaac Abravanel, and Abravanel’s renowned philosopher son Judah, known as Leone Ebreo. By bringing these thinkers together, this book presents a new understanding of early modern uses of Jewish texts and hermeneutics. Ogren successfully demonstrates that the syntheses of philosophy and Kabbalah carried out by these four intellectuals in their quests to understand the beginning itself marked a new beginning in Western thought, characterized by simultaneous continuity and rupture.

Brian Ogren, Ph.D. (2008), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is the Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religion at Rice University. He has authored works on Kabbalah and Jewish philosophy, including Renaissance and Rebirth (Brill, 2009).

Acknowledgments
Introduction: In the Beginning
PART ONE: BERESHIT – THE WISDOM OF THE BEGINNING
Chapter One: On the Wisdom of Language – Yohanan Alemanno on the Word of God and the Simulacrum of Creation
Chapter Two: On the Wisdom of Christ – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on the Truth of the Son and the Creation of the World
Chapter Three: On the Wisdom of Angels – Isaac Abravanel on the Separate Intellects, Bodies, and the Garments of Creation
Chapter Four: On the Wisdom of Beauty – Leone Ebreo on Art and Creation
PART TWO: TOHU VA-VOHU – ASTOUNDING AND SUBSTANTIAL BEGINNINGS
Chapter Five: Hylomorphic Time – Yohanan Alemanno on Form, Matter, and the Days of Creation
Chapter Six: Edifices and Days – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola on Formation, Teshuvah, and the Return to Christ
Chapter Seven: Ex-Nihilo Creation – Isaac Abravanel on the Formation of the World, Evil, and Peace
Chapter Eight: Chaos and Divine Spirit – Leone Ebreo on Greek Mythology, Jewish Lore, and the Gendered Creation of the Universe
Concluding Remarks – On Sources and Influences in Relation to “The Beginning”
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	13.10.2016
Reihe/Serie	Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy ; 27
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	458 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9789004330627 / 9789004330627
Zustand	Neuware