Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion) - Hardcover

Tirosh-Rothschild, Hava

 
9780791404478: Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon (SUNY series in Judaica: Hermeneutics, Mysticism, and Religion)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0791404471 ISBN 13: 9780791404478
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1991

Synopsis

It is a work of sound scholarship dealing with an interesting historical figure and his unique cultural world. The author focuses correctly on the transition from Italian to Ottoman Jewish culture in the life of David Messer Leon and reveals much about the continuities and discontinuities between both societies. He nicely fuses social and intellectual history, and uses a life to illuminate a number of interesting and important cultural trends among early modern Jews, particularly the integration of kabbalah and philosophy, Humanism and Thomism. The presentation of the symbiotic nature of Jewish culture with contemporary intellectual trends and the appropriation of Christian theological strategies by a Jewish thinker to explain Judaism make this study a fascinating one.

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About the Author

Hava Tirosh-Rothschild is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion at Emory University.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791404471
ISBN 13 
9780791404478
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
385

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