Format:
1 online resource (367 pages)
ISBN:
9781684580248
Series Statement:
Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1: Don Isaac Abravanel in Portugal (1437-1483) -- 1. The Kingdom of Portugal and the Abravanel Family -- 2. Isaac Abravanel and Iberian Court Culture -- 3. Isaac Abravanel as a Jewish Leader in His Hebrew Epistles -- 4. Isaac Abravanel: Philosopher and Theologian -- 5. Don Isaac's Fall from Grace in Portugal -- Part 2: Don Isaac Abravanel in Castile (1483-1492) -- 6. Don Isaac Abravanel Immigrates to Castile -- 7. Isaac Abravanel's Historical and Literary Approach to the Books of the Former Prophets -- 8. The Figure of the Leader in Abravanel's Commentary on the Former Prophets -- 9. Don Isaac's Republicanism -- 10. Success at the Courts of the Catholic Monarchs -- Part 3: Don Isaac Abravanel in Italy (1492-1508) -- 11. Abravanel's Arrival in Naples -- 12. Commentary on Kings as a Response to the Expulsion -- 13. Solomon: The Ideal King -- 14. The Temple: Construction, Glory, Destruction -- 15. The Military Crisis in Italy at the End of the Fifteenth Century -- 16. A Defense of Judaism in the Midst of the Storm -- 17. Messianism -- 18. The Last Years in Venice (1503-1508) -- Afterword: Don Isaac Abravanel in the Twentieth Century -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781684580231
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781684580231
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Cohen-Skalli, Cedric Don Isaac Abravanel Waltham : Brandeis University Press, 2020 ISBN 9781684580231
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1684580234
Language:
English
Keywords:
Abravanel, Yitsḥaḳ 1437-1508
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Biografie
