Isaac Abarbanel's stance toward tradition : defense, dissent, and dialogue / / Eric Lawee

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827238803321
• Autore: Lawee Eric
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2001; ©2001
• ISBN: 0-7914-8988-4; 0-585-42646-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages)
• Disciplina: 296/.092
• Soggetti: Judaism - Doctrines; Rabbinical literature - History and criticism; Tradition (Judaism)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-312) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter Half Title Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Bibliographic Notes / Abbreviations Introduction Life and Contexts Works and Traditions "To the Help of the Lord Against the Mighty" Rabbinic Legacy: Background and Parameters The Rabbinic Hermeneutic: Midrash in the Biblical Commentaries In Search of Classical Jewish Eschatology: Yeshu'ot meshi Historical Thinking, Critical Reading, and the Study of Classical Jewish Texts Abarbanel and Tradition: Six Trends Back Matter Notes
• Sommario/riassunto: Winner of the 2002 Nauchman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical/Rabbinic Scholarship presented by the Canadian Jewish Book AwardsFinalist, 2002 Scholarship Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award presented by the National Jewish Book CouncilFinancier and courtier to the kings of Portugal, Spain, and Italy and Spanish Jewry's foremost representative at court at the time of its 1492 expulsion, Isaac Abarbanel was also Judaism's leading scholar at the turn of the sixteenth century. His work has had a profound influence on both his contemporaries and later thinkers, Jewish and Christian. Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition is the first full-length study of Abarbanel in half a century. The book considers a wide range of ; Abarbanel's writings, focusing for the first time on the dominant exegetical side of his intellectual achievements as reflected in biblical commentaries and messianic writings. Author Eric Lawee approaches Abarbanel's work from the perspective of his negotiations with texts and teachings bequeathed to him from the Jewish past. The work provides insight into the important spiritual and intellectual developments in late medieval and early modern Judaism while offering a portrait of a complex scholar whose stance before tradition combined conservatism with creativity and reverence with daring.