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David Malkiel
Isaac’s Fear - An Early Modern Encyclopedia of Judaism
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Isaac's Fear is a study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of
Judaism from eighteenth-century Ferrara. The encylopedia synthesizes science
and religion. Its entries illuminate the society and culture of early modern
Italy, its Jewish community and the intellectual life of the author and his
contemporaries.
List of contents
Table of Contents Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One
1. Empiricism
Source: ¿Empiricism in Isaac Lampronti¿s Pahad Yizhak,¿ Materia Giudaica 10 (2005), pp. 341-51.
2. Palazzo Tè
Source: ¿Palazzo Tè between Science and Imagination,¿ Journal of Early Modern History 20 (2016), pp. 429-61.
3. The Past
Source: ¿The Burden of the Past in the Eighteenth Century: Authority and Custom in the Pahad Yizhaq,¿ Jewish Law Annual 16 (2006), pp. 93-132.
4. Traditional Society
Source: ¿Ebraismo, tradizione e società: Isaaco Lampronti e l¿identità ebraica nella Ferrara del XVIII secolo,¿ Zakhor 7 (2005), pp. 9-42.
Part Two
5. The Sambation
Source: ¿The Sambation River and the Ten Lost Tribes in Isaac Lampronti¿s Pahad Yizhak,¿ [Hebrew] Pe`amim 94-95 (2003), pp. 159-80.
6. Intercessory Prayer
Source: ¿Between Worldliness and Traditionalism: Eighteenth-Century Italian Jews Debate Intercessory Prayer,¿ Jewish Studies Internet Journal 2 (2003), pp. 169-98.
7. Pollution
Source: ¿Law and Architecture: The Pollution Crisis in the Italian Ghetto,¿ European Journal of Jewish Studies 4.2 (2011), pp. 255-84.
8. Christian Hebraism
Source: ¿Christian Hebraism in a Contemporary Key: The Search for Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Italy,¿ Jewish Quarterly Review 96 (2006), pp. 123-46.
Index
Introduction
Part One
1. Empiricism
Source: ¿Empiricism in Isaac Lampronti¿s Pahad Yizhak,¿ Materia Giudaica 10 (2005), pp. 341-51.
2. Palazzo Tè
Source: ¿Palazzo Tè between Science and Imagination,¿ Journal of Early Modern History 20 (2016), pp. 429-61.
3. The Past
Source: ¿The Burden of the Past in the Eighteenth Century: Authority and Custom in the Pahad Yizhaq,¿ Jewish Law Annual 16 (2006), pp. 93-132.
4. Traditional Society
Source: ¿Ebraismo, tradizione e società: Isaaco Lampronti e l¿identità ebraica nella Ferrara del XVIII secolo,¿ Zakhor 7 (2005), pp. 9-42.
Part Two
5. The Sambation
Source: ¿The Sambation River and the Ten Lost Tribes in Isaac Lampronti¿s Pahad Yizhak,¿ [Hebrew] Pe`amim 94-95 (2003), pp. 159-80.
6. Intercessory Prayer
Source: ¿Between Worldliness and Traditionalism: Eighteenth-Century Italian Jews Debate Intercessory Prayer,¿ Jewish Studies Internet Journal 2 (2003), pp. 169-98.
7. Pollution
Source: ¿Law and Architecture: The Pollution Crisis in the Italian Ghetto,¿ European Journal of Jewish Studies 4.2 (2011), pp. 255-84.
8. Christian Hebraism
Source: ¿Christian Hebraism in a Contemporary Key: The Search for Hebrew Epitaph Poetry in Seventeenth-Century Italy,¿ Jewish Quarterly Review 96 (2006), pp. 123-46.
Index
About the author
David Malkiel is Full Professor in the Department of Jewish History of Bar-Ilan University, in Israel. He has published widely on Jewish life in medieval and early modern Europe. On the Jews of Italy, a primary field of interest, he has published four books, most recently Stones Speak (2014), an interdisciplinary study of the Hebrew tombstones of Padua.
Summary
Isaac’s Fear is a study of a Hebrew encyclopedia ofJudaism from eighteenth-century Ferrara. The encylopedia synthesizes scienceand religion. Its entries illuminate the society and culture of early modernItaly, its Jewish community and the intellectual life of the author and hiscontemporaries.
Product details
| Authors | David Malkiel |
| Publisher | Ingram Publishers Services |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Hardback |
| Released | 22.02.2022 |
| EAN | 9781644697351 |
| ISBN | 978-1-64469-735-1 |
| No. of pages | 268 |
| Dimensions | 156 mm x 234 mm x 20 mm |
| Weight | 564 g |
| Illustrations | schwarz-weiss Illustrationen |
| Subjects |
Humanities, art, music
> Religion/theology
> Judaism
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous Philosophy of religion, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Religion and science, Religion & science, Jewish philosophy, Judaism - life & practice |
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