Renaissance and Rebirth : Reincarnation in Early Modern Italian Kabbalah.
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CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One Metempsychosis, Philosophy and Kabbalah: The Debate in Candia -- Chapter Two The Extra-Debatal Literature of Candia and Questions of Identity -- Chapter Three Philosophical and Mystical Possibilities of Metempsychosis: Isaac Abarbanel -- Chapter Four Spanish and Italian Conceptions of Metempsychosis in Judah Hayyat -- Chapter Five Elia Hayyim ben Binyamin of Genazzano, Prisca Theologia, and the Two Ancient Paths to Metempsychosis -- Chapter Six Unity and Diversity in Gilgul: Yohanan Alemanno -- Chapter Seven Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the Allegorical Veridicality of Transmigration -- Chapter Eight Marsilio Ficino, Circularity and Rebirth -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Index.
Through the theme of metempsychosis as discussed by scholars in Renaissance Italy, this book addresses the problematic question of the roles of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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