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Pico's Heptaplus and biblical hermeneutics /
This is the first full-length study of the Heptaplus, the commentary on the creation narrative of "Genesis 1" by the celebrated Italian philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. It focuses on Pico's theory of allegory. This theory was fundamentally dissimilar to mainstream medieval a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2006.
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| Colección: | Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ;
v. 116. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is the first full-length study of the Heptaplus, the commentary on the creation narrative of "Genesis 1" by the celebrated Italian philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. It focuses on Pico's theory of allegory. This theory was fundamentally dissimilar to mainstream medieval and Renaissance approaches to biblical interpretation. Rather than use the standard four senses of Scripture, Pico adopted an esoteric hermeneutic stance characteristic of Neoplatonic and kabbalistic exegesis, and developed an allegorical theory based on epistemology and the idea of intellectual ascent. The exploration of this theme makes it possible not only to interpret the Heptaplus in relation to Pico's other works, but also to assess its role as a response to the contemporary philosophical controversy surrounding the intellect |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789047410645 9047410645 1281400092 9781281400093 9786611400095 6611400095 |
| ISSN: | 1573-4188 ; |