This is a complete English translation of the classic work of 1504 by the renowned statesman and philosopher, Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508), concerning the philosophical ideas of Maimonides. A comprehensive introduction and notes are also provided.

Principles of Faith (The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization)

Business & Money

Abravanel, Isaac

Economics

The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

The Abarbanel on the Yom Kippur service in the beis hamikdash

Distributed by Philipp Feldheim

Le Principe De La Foi Ou La Discussion Des Croyances Fondamentales Du Judaisme (1884) (Italian Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

History & Criticism

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Le Principe De La Foi, Ou: La Discussion Des Croyances Fondamentales Du Judaïsme (French Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Nabu Press

Almost five hundred years after his death, Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) remains a legendary figure of Sephardic history, and above all of the Expulsion of 1492. There are numerous"portraits" that have been painted of him by pre-modern and modern scholars. And still we hesitate and cannot discern which is the true one. This first critical edition of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters opens a unique window on a complex cultural process of assimilation and dissimulation of humanism among the fifteenth-century Jewish elite. On the one hand, it establishes Abravanel's assimilation of Iberian humanism and of major aspects of the Petrarchian consolatio; on the other hand, it points at the strategies used by him to dissimulate and adapt humanism to Jewish leadership. The duality of Jewish humanists like Don Isaac was obviously a great richness, but it indicated as well their difficulty in expressing themselves coherently and comprehensively in one of the two agoras - Jewish or Christian - in which they were involved as literati and writers. The present edition and study of Abravanel's Portuguese and Hebrew letters sheds a new light on the complexity of this new figure of the Jewish humanist.

Isaac Abravanel: Letters (Studia Judaica 40) (Hebrew, Portuguese and English Edition)

History

World

Walter de Gruyter

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