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Isaac’s Fear : An Early Modern Encyclopedia of Judaism / David Malkiel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781644697368
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 296.12003
LOC classification:
  • BM500.5.L3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1. Empiricism -- 2. Palazzo Tè -- 3. The Past -- 4. Traditional Society -- PART TWO -- 5. The Sambation -- 6. Intercessory Prayer -- 7. Pollution -- 8. Christian Hebraism -- General Index -- Index of Sources
Summary: Isaac’s Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on thought and praxis. The book’s eight chapters are previously published studies. Isaac’s Fear represents the attempt to synthesize modern science and religious tradition, a fundamental issue then and in our own day. Encyclopedia entries illuminate the society and culture of early modern Italy, its Jewish community and the intellectual life of the author and his contemporaries.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781644697368

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- 1. Empiricism -- 2. Palazzo Tè -- 3. The Past -- 4. Traditional Society -- PART TWO -- 5. The Sambation -- 6. Intercessory Prayer -- 7. Pollution -- 8. Christian Hebraism -- General Index -- Index of Sources

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Isaac’s Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on thought and praxis. The book’s eight chapters are previously published studies. Isaac’s Fear represents the attempt to synthesize modern science and religious tradition, a fundamental issue then and in our own day. Encyclopedia entries illuminate the society and culture of early modern Italy, its Jewish community and the intellectual life of the author and his contemporaries.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)