Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue by Eric Lawee

Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue



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Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue Eric Lawee
Language: English
Page: 335
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0791451267, 9780791451267
Publisher: State University of New York Press

From the Back Cover

Financier and courtier to the kings of Portugal, Spain, and Italy and Spanish Jewry's foremost representative at court at the time of its 1492 expulsion, Isaac Abarbanel was also Judaism's leading scholar at the turn of the sixteenth century. His work has had a profound influence on both his contemporaries and later thinkers, Jewish and Christian. Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition is the first full-length study of Abarbanel in half a century. The book considers a wide range of Abarbanel's writings, focusing for the first time on the dominant exegetical side of his intellectual achievements as reflected in biblical commentaries and messianic writings. Author Eric Lawee approaches Abarbanel's work from the perspective of his negotiations with texts and teachings bequeathed to him from the Jewish past. The work provides insight into the important spiritual and intellectual developments in late medieval and early modern Judaism while offering a portrait of a complex scholar whose stance before tradition combined conservatism with creativity and reverence with daring.

About the Author

Eric Lawee is Assistant Professor of Humanities at York University.

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