- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
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1 Kabbalah -
2 Abraham Abulafia and Ecstatic Kabbalah -
3 Abraham Abulafia's Activity in Italy -
4 Ecstatic Kabbalah as an Experiential Lore -
5 Abraham Abulafia's Hermeneutics -
6 Eschatological Themes and Divine Names in Abulafia's Kabbalah -
7 Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin -
8 R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -
9 Menahem Recanati as a Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalist -
10 Menahem Recanati's Hermeneutics -
11 Ecstatic Kabbalah from the Fourteenth Through Mid-Fifteenth Centuries -
12 The Kabbalistic-Philosophical-Magical Exchanges in Italy -
13 Prisca Theologia -
14 R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -
15 Jewish Mystical Thought in Lorenzo IL Magnifico's Florence -
16 Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence -
17 Spanish Kabbalists in Italy after the Expulsion -
18 Two Diverging Types of Kabbalah in Late-Fifteenth-Century Italy -
19 Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb -
20 Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -
21 Astromagical Pneumatic Anthropoids from Medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -
22 The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy - Concluding Remarks
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Appendix 1 The Angel Named Righteous: From R. ʾAmittai of Oria to Erfurt and Rome -
Appendix 2 The Infant Experiment: On the Search for the First Language in Italy -
Appendix 3 R. Yohanan Alemanno's Study Program -
Appendix 4 Magic Temples and Cities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Masʾudi, Ibn Zarza, Alemanno - Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Titles
- Index of Names
Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence
Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence
- Chapter:
- (p.202) 16 Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence
- Source:
- Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510
- Author(s):
Moshe Idel
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter aims to show that, although all three main kabbalistic models, the ecstatic, the theosophical-theurgical, and the magical, were well represented in kabbalistic literatures available in Florence at the end of the fifteenth century, the spectrum of Jewish texts dealing with mystical topics was much more variegated. In addition to these literatures, there were extensive writings concerned with two other forms of spirituality. Their impact may have been less profound than that exercised by kabbalistic literature, but nevertheless they should not be ignored. The earliest form of Jewish mystical literature, the so-called Heikhalot literature stemming from late antiquity, had been preserved mostly by the Ashkenazi Pietists. Another form of medieval Jewish mysticism, which was relatively widespread in Laurentian Florence, was that of Hasidei Ashkenaz.
Keywords: main kabbalistic models, kabbalistic literatures, Jewish texts, forms of spirituality, Heikhalot literature, Hasidei Ashkenaz
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
-
1 Kabbalah -
2 Abraham Abulafia and Ecstatic Kabbalah -
3 Abraham Abulafia's Activity in Italy -
4 Ecstatic Kabbalah as an Experiential Lore -
5 Abraham Abulafia's Hermeneutics -
6 Eschatological Themes and Divine Names in Abulafia's Kabbalah -
7 Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin -
8 R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -
9 Menahem Recanati as a Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalist -
10 Menahem Recanati's Hermeneutics -
11 Ecstatic Kabbalah from the Fourteenth Through Mid-Fifteenth Centuries -
12 The Kabbalistic-Philosophical-Magical Exchanges in Italy -
13 Prisca Theologia -
14 R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -
15 Jewish Mystical Thought in Lorenzo IL Magnifico's Florence -
16 Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence -
17 Spanish Kabbalists in Italy after the Expulsion -
18 Two Diverging Types of Kabbalah in Late-Fifteenth-Century Italy -
19 Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb -
20 Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -
21 Astromagical Pneumatic Anthropoids from Medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -
22 The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy - Concluding Remarks
-
Appendix 1 The Angel Named Righteous: From R. ʾAmittai of Oria to Erfurt and Rome -
Appendix 2 The Infant Experiment: On the Search for the First Language in Italy -
Appendix 3 R. Yohanan Alemanno's Study Program -
Appendix 4 Magic Temples and Cities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Masʾudi, Ibn Zarza, Alemanno - Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Titles
- Index of Names
