Studies In Medieval Jewish Intellectual And Social History
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Author |
: David Engel |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 343 |
Release |
: 2012-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004222335 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004222332 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History by : David Engel
Thirteen leading scholars offer a fresh look at four key topics in medieval Jewish studies: the history of Jewish communities in Western Christendom, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of medieval Jewry.
Author |
: Norman Golb |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 668 |
Release |
: 1998-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521580323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521580328 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jews in Medieval Normandy by : Norman Golb
This 1998 book is a comprehensive account of the high Hebraic culture developed by the Jews in Normandy during the Middle Ages, and in particular during the Anglo-Norman period. This culture has remained virtually unknown to the public and to the scholarly world throughout modern times, until a combination of recent manuscript discoveries and archaeological findings delineated this phenomenon for the first time. The book explores the origins of this remarkable community, beginning with topographical evidence pointing to the arrival of the Jews in Normandy as early as Roman and Gallo-Roman times, through autograph documentary testimony available in the Cairo Genizah manuscripts and early medieval Latin sources, finally using the rich manuscript evidence of twelfth- and early thirteenth-century writers which attest to the high cultural level attained by this community and to its social and political interaction with the Christian world of Anglo-Norman times and their aftermath.
Author |
: Isadore Twersky |
Publisher |
: Harvard Univ Center for Jewish |
Total Pages |
: 338 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674003780 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674003781 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (80 Downloads) |
Synopsis Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature by : Isadore Twersky
This volume contains eleven original studies, ten in English and one in Hebrew, by some of the most established scholars of Judaica and young newcomers as well. Like the studies in the previous two volumes in the series, those in this new volume shed important light on the Jewish cultural experience across a vast geographic expanse, and over many centuries. The studies illuminate the relationship of Jewish social structure and intellectual creativity; the political theories that informed Jewish communal life; different aspects of Jewish philosophical and mystical discourse; Jewish biblical interpretation; and the dynamic of Jewish legal thinking. One study offers a critical edition and annotated translation of one of the classics of Jewish biblical interpretation. The collection will be indispensable to all students of Jewish history and culture.
Author |
: Ephraim Kanarfogel |
Publisher |
: Wayne State University Press |
Total Pages |
: 600 |
Release |
: 2012-12-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814338025 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081433802X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz by : Ephraim Kanarfogel
In The Intellectual History and Rabbinic Culture of Medieval Ashkenaz, author Ephraim Kanarfogel challenges the dominant perception that medieval Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship was lacking in intellectualism or broad scholarly interests. While cultural interaction between Jews and Christians in western Europe was less than that of Sephardic Jews, Kanarfogel's study shows that the intellectual interests of Ashkenazic rabbinic figures were much broader than Talmudic studies alone. Kanarfogel begins by highlighting several factors that have contributed to relatively narrow perceptions of Ashkenazic rabbinic culture and argues that the Tosafists, and Ashkenazic rabbinic scholarship more generally, advocated a wide definition of the truths that could be discovered through Torah study. He explores differences in talmudic and halakhic studies between the Tosafist centers of northern France and Germany, delves into aspects of biblical interpretation in each region, and identifies important Tosafists and rabbinic figures. Kanarfogel also examines the composition of liturgical poetry (piyyut) by Tosafists, interest in forms of (white) magic and mysticism on the part of a number of northern French Tosafists, and a spectrum of views on the question of anthropomorphism and messianism. Overall, Kanarfogel demonstrates that the approach taken by Tosafists was broader, more open, and more multi-disciplinary than previously considered. Medieval and Jewish history scholars will appreciate Kanarfogel's volume, which is the culmination of several decades of research on the subject.
Author |
: Abraham Melamed |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1936235323 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781936235322 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Wisdom's Little Sister by : Abraham Melamed
The study of Jewish political philosophy is a recently established field. Consisting of selected English-language papers the authors published over the last 30 years, this volume concentrates on the Medieval and Renaissance periods, from Sa'adiah Gaon in the 10th century to Spinoza in the 17th, the formative periods in the development of Jewish political philosophy.
Author |
: Javier Castano |
Publisher |
: Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages |
: 363 |
Release |
: 2018-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786949905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786949903 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regional Identities and Cultures of Medieval Jews by : Javier Castano
The origins of Judaism’s regional ‘subcultures’ are poorly understood, as are Jewish identities other than ‘Ashkenaz’ and ‘Sepharad’. Through case studies and close textual readings, this volume illuminates the role of geopolitical boundaries, cross-cultural influences, and migration in the medieval formation of Jewish regional identities.
Author |
: Alessandro Guetta |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004169319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004169318 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Studies in Medieval Jewish Poetry by : Alessandro Guetta
Analysing well-known Hebrew medieval poets from a new, refreshing standpoint and focusing on less known authors and periods, this book shows the maturity of the research in this field. Written in English (and French) the articles make the Hebrew texts more easily available to scholars of comparative literature.
Author |
: David I. Shyovitz |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 2017-06-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812249118 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812249119 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Remembrance of His Wonders by : David I. Shyovitz
In A Remembrance of His Wonders, David I. Shyovitz uncovers the sophisticated ways in which medieval Ashkenazic Jews engaged with the workings and meaning of the natural world, and traces the porous boundaries between medieval science and mysticism, nature and the supernatural, and ultimately, Christians and Jews.
Author |
: Daniel H. Frank |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9004104046 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9789004104044 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jews of Medieval Islam by : Daniel H. Frank
A collection of fifteen articles on the communal, social, and intellectual life of medieval Jewry in Islamic lands. This volume depicts a civilization unified in its languages and basic structures but diverse in its distinctive lical indentities and collective memories.
Author |
: Israel M. Ta-Shma |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UVA:X030255141 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creativity and Tradition by : Israel M. Ta-Shma
This volume brings together 16 of Ta-Shma's outstanding studies (4 published here for the first time). These essays focus on leading rabbinic scholars and their writings as well as important issues of Jewish intellectual history, such as the nature of halakhah and aggadah; kabbalah and spirituality; childhood; and popular religion.