Don Isaac Abravanel, Statesman & Philosopher
Title | Don Isaac Abravanel, Statesman & Philosopher PDF eBook |
Author | Benzion Netanyahu |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780801484858 |
Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a scholar of encyclopedic learning, a philosopher, an exegete, a prolific author, a mystic, and an apocalyptist. In Abravanel, B. Netanyahu suggests, two long lines of tradition met and concluded: that of medieval Jewish statesmen and that of medieval Jewish philosophers. In what is both a biography and an exploration of Abravanel's thought and influence, Netanyahu describes how Abravanel illuminated the grave crisis and profound transformation experienced by the Jewish people after the Spanish expulsion. First published in 1953, Don Isaac Abravanel has been out of print for several years. This new edition includes revisions in the text, notes, and bibliography.
Don Isaac Abravanel, Statesman and Philosopher
Title | Don Isaac Abravanel, Statesman and Philosopher PDF eBook |
Author | Benzion Netanyahu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 1953 |
Genre | Jewish philosophers |
ISBN |
Don Isaac Abravanel, Statesman and Philosopher
Title | Don Isaac Abravanel, Statesman and Philosopher PDF eBook |
Author | Benzion Netanyahu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Don Isaac Abravanel
Title | Don Isaac Abravanel PDF eBook |
Author | Cedric Cohen Skalli |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Electronic books |
ISBN | 9781684580248 |
"An intellectual biography of Don Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, a 15th century Portuguese rabbi, scholar, Bible commentator, philosopher, and statesman"--
The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain
Title | The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain PDF eBook |
Author | Benzion Netanyahu |
Publisher | New York Review of Books |
Pages | 1432 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780940322394 |
The Spanish Inquisition remains a fearful symbol of state terror. Its principal target was theconversos, descendants of Spanish Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity some three generations earlier. Since thousands of them confessed to charges of practicing Judaism in secret, historians have long understood the Inquisition as an attempt to suppress the Jews of Spain. In this magisterial reexamination of the origins of the Inquisition, Netanyahu argues for a different view: that the conversos were in fact almost all genuine Christians who were persecuted for political ends. The Inquisition's attacks not only on the conversos' religious beliefs but also on their "impure blood" gave birth to an anti-Semitism based on race that would have terrible consequences for centuries to come. This book has become essential reading and an indispensable reference book for both the interested layman and the scholar of history and religion.
Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosophy
Title | Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosophy PDF eBook |
Author | Benzion Netanyahu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 350 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Don Isaac Abravanel
Title | Don Isaac Abravanel PDF eBook |
Author | Cedric Cohen-Skalli |
Publisher | Brandeis University Press |
Pages | 367 |
Release | 2020-11-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1684580234 |
"An intellectual biography of Don Isaac ben Judah Abravanel, a 15th century Portuguese rabbi, scholar, Bible commentator, philosopher, and statesman"--