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The Bible and natural philosophy in Renaissance Italy : Jewish and Christian physicians in search of truth /
The Bible and Natural Philosophy in Renaissance Italy explores the reciprocal relationship between biblical interpretation and natural philosophy in sixteenth-century Italy. The book augments our knowledge of the manifold applications of medical expertise in the Renaissance and of the multiple ways...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Names; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Medical Culture in Late Renaissance Italy; The Bible and Medicine in Late Renaissance Italy; Biblical Commentary in Jewish and Catholic Learned Communities; Chapter Summary; 1 "This Is What King David Meant"; Amatus Lusitanus: Medical Commentary and the Bible; The Vulgate Bible in the Sixteenth Century; Ulisse Aldrovandi and Biblical Studies; Conclusion; 2 Pliny, Papyrus, and the Bible; Melchior Guilandinus.
- Aldrovandi, Guilandinus, and Pliny's Natural HistoryFrom Pliny to the Bible: Leoniceno's Legacy in the Later Sixteenth Century; Aldrovandi and Other Contemporary bibliologiae; Conclusion; 3 "The Grandeur of the Science of God"; David de' Pomi and Greek Education; Natural Philosophy in tsemaḥ david; David de' Pomi and Renaissance Lexicography; Hyacinth and tsemaḥ david; Conclusion; 4 Jewish-Christian Relations in Sixteenth-Century Italy; Portaleone's Medical Letters and Jewish-Christian Relations in Renaissance Italy; Bread; Monsters; Magno and Baptism; Portaleone and Jewish concerns.
- Portaleone and Galen/RufusPortaleone and Colombo; Conclusion; 5 "I Seek the Truth from Whomever Pronounces It"; Why Incense?; Identifying the Elements of Incense: Portaleone's Criticism of Rabbinic Sources; Geography and Greek; Criticism of Ancient Greek and Latin Sources; Holy Pharmacology: Portaleone's Reconstruction of Biblical Incense; Making Biblical Incense: The Construction of a Prohibited Product; Conclusion; Conclusion; Appendix I The Ancient Israelite Incense Mixture; Biblical Text; Exodus 30:34-38; Jewish Publication Society Translation; Babylonian Talmud Keritot 6a.
- Soncino TranslationAppendix II Ulisse Aldrovandi and Hebrew; Appendix III The Index to Portaleone's Responsorum et consultationum medicinalium liber (1607); Bibliography; Manuscripts; Printed Books Before 1800; Printed Books since 1800; Index.