Judah Moscato Sermons

Judah Moscato Sermons
Author: Gianfranco Miletto
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 584
Release: 2010-12-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9047441354

Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. The book Sefer Nefuṣot Yehudah belongs to the very centre of his important homiletic and philosophical oeuvre. Composed in Mantua and published in Venice in 1589, the collection of 52 sermons addresses the subject of the Jewish festivals, focussing on philosophy, mysticism, sciences and rites. This and subsequent volumes will provide a critical edition of the original Hebrew text, accompanied by an English translation.

Judah Moscato Sermons

Judah Moscato Sermons
Author: Judah ben Joseph Moscato
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2011-11-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004219323

Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. The book Sefer Nefu?ot Yehudah belongs to the very centre of his homiletic and philosophical oeuvre.

Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries

Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries
Author: Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2012-03-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004222251

Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference organized in Mantua and consists of contributions on Moscato and his intellectual world.

Alienated Wisdom

Alienated Wisdom
Author: Giuseppe Veltri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2018-08-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3110603683

The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and then Greco-Roman (and Christian) thought in connection with the query into the history and genealogy of wisdom and knowledge. Our journey into the history of the denomination ‘Jewish philosophy’ will include a leg that will lead us to certain declarations of political, moral, and scientific principles, and then on to the birth of what is called philosophia perennis or, in Christian circles, prisca theologia. Our subject of inquiry will thus be the birth of the concept of Jewish philosophy, Jewish theology and Jewish philosophy of religion. A special emphasis will fall on the topic treated in the last part of this study: Jewish scepticism, a theme that involves a philosophical attitude founded on dialectical "enquiry", as the etymology of the Greek word skepsis properly means.

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy

Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
Author: Marco Sgarbi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 3618
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 3319141694

Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.

The Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought

The Book of Job in Jewish Life and Thought
Author: Jason Kalman
Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press
Total Pages: 606
Release: 2021-12-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0878201955

Despite its general absence from the Jewish liturgical cycle and its limited place in Jewish practice, the Book of Job has permeated Jewish culture over the last 2,000 years. Job has not only had to endure the suffering described in the biblical book, but the efforts of countless commentators, interpreters, and creative rewriters whose explanations more often than not challenged the protagonist's righteousness in order to preserve Divine justice. Beginning with five critical essays on the specific efforts of ancient, medieval, and modern Jewish writers to make sense of the biblical book, this volume concludes with a detailed survey of the place of Job in the Talmud and Midrashic corpus, in medieval biblical commentary, in ethical, mystical, and philosophical tracts, as well as in poetry and creative writing in a wide variety of Jewish languages from around the world from the second to sixteenth centuries.

Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song

Three Early Modern Hebrew Scholars on the Mysteries of Song
Author: Don Harrán Z"l
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2014-10-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004283641

In discoursing on music, three early modern Jewish scholars stand out for their originality. The first is Judah Moscato, who, as chief rabbi in Mantua, preached sermons, one of them on music: there Moscato presents music as a cosmic and spiritual phenomenon. The second scholar is Leon Modena, the foremost Jewish intellectual in early seventeenth-century Venice. Modena deals with music in two responsa to questions put to him for rabbinical adjudication, one of them an examination of biblical and rabbinical sources on the legitimacy of performing art music in the synagogue. Abraham Portaleone, the third scholar, treated music in a massive disquisition on the Ancient Temple and its ritual, describing it as an art correlating with contemporary Italian music. The introduction surveys the development of Hebrew art music from the Bible through the Talmud and rabbinical writings until the early modern era. The epilogue defines the special contribution of Hebrew scholars to early modern theory.

The Jews in Italy

The Jews in Italy
Author: Yaron Harel
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2019-10-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1644692589

All twenty-two original articles in the current volume are based on lectures given at the conference “The Jews in Italy: Their Contribution to the Development and Diffusion of Jewish Heritage”, which was convened in September 2011, at the University of Bologna, Department of Cultural Heritage. Geographically, the articles range from Italy to the Ottoman Empire (the Balkans and Aleppo), from France and Germany to the Middle East, including Israel, North and East Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, and Ethiopia). Chronologically, articles begin with the Roman period, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance until modern times. In this collection, the reader will find a wide range of subjects reflecting various scholarly perspectives such as history; Christian-Jewish relations; Kabbalah; commentary on the Bible and Talmud; language, grammar, and translation; literature; philosophy; gastronomy; art; culture; folklore; and education.