03903nam 2200673Ia 450 991097146650332120200520144314.09780791489888079148988497805854264640585426465(CKB)111056486601224(OCoLC)50790963(CaPaEBR)ebrary10587239(SSID)ssj0000183949(PQKBManifestationID)11170439(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000183949(PQKBWorkID)10199380(PQKB)10362505(MdBmJHUP)muse13953(Au-PeEL)EBL3408040(CaPaEBR)ebr10587239(DE-B1597)683647(DE-B1597)9780791489888(MiAaPQ)EBC3408040(Perlego)2672439(EXLCZ)9911105648660122420001221d2001 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentccrdacontentcrrdacarrierIsaac Abarbanel's stance toward tradition defense, dissent, and dialogue /Eric LaweeAlbany State University of New York Pressc20011 online resource (xiii, 320 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780791451267 0791451267 9780791451250 0791451259 Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-312) and index.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 NotesWinner 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.JudaismDoctrinesRabbinical literatureHistory and criticismTradition (Judaism)JudaismDoctrines.Rabbinical literatureHistory and criticism.Tradition (Judaism)296/.092Lawee Eric1804369MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971466503321Isaac Abarbanel's stance toward tradition4352351UNINA