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Isaac's fear : an early modern encyclopedia of Judaism / David Malkiel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2022Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 248 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781644697368
  • 164469736X
  • 1644697378
  • 9781644697375
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Isaac's fearDDC classification:
  • 296.1/2003 23
LOC classification:
  • BM500.5.L3 M35 2022
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources: 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2022).