TY  - BOOK
AU  - Veltri,Giuseppe
TI  - Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish garb: foundations and challenges in Judaism on the eve of modernity 
T2  - Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy,
SN  - 9789047425281 (electronic bk.)
AV  - B5800 .V45 2009eb
U1  - 181/.06 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - History
KW  - Jews
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Judaism and politics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Description based on print version record; Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index; Introduction: In search of a Jewish renaissance -- Jewish philosophy : humanist roots of a contradiction in terms -- The prophetic-poetic dimension of philosophy : the ars poetica and Immanuel of Rome -- Leone Ebreo's concept of Jewish philosophy -- Conceptions of history : Azariah de' Rossi -- Scientific thought and the exegetical mind, with an essay on the life and works of Rabbi Judah Loew -- Mathematical and biblical exegesis : Jewish sources of Athanasius Kircher's musical theory -- Creating geographical and political utopias : the ten lost tribes and the east -- Ceremonial law : history of a philosophical-political concept -- The city and the ghetto : Simone Luzzatto and the development of Jewish political thought -- Body of conversion and immortality of the soul : Sara Copio Sullam, the "Beautiful Jewess"
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ER  -