The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus : Profayt Duran and Jewish Identity in Late Medieval Iberia /
"The Secret Faith of Maestre Honoratus explores late medieval Iberian Jewish culture through the figure of Profayt Duran, a rationalist Jewish scholar who was compelled during the riots of 1391 to become a Christian in name, and whose broad-ranging philosophical and scientific education was mus...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one. An intellectual portrait. Honoratus de Bonafide, olim vocatus Profayt Duran, judeus ; Scientific transmission outside the university ; Efodi : the commentary on the Guide of the perplexed ; Philosophical eclecticism
- part two. Science and Jewish identity. Jewish astronomy : between Maimonides and Gersonides ; A Jewish cosmos : number and speech ; Astronomy and Jewish identity : Ḥeshev ha-Efod ; Rationalist polemics : Al tehi ka-avotekha ; History and religion : Kelimat ha-goyim
- part three. The efod atones for idolatry. The inner life : eulogy for Abraham ha-Levi of Girona ; The true wisdom of the Torah : Ma'aseh Efod ; Sigil and segulah : magical elements in Ma'aseh Efod.