- 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
Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy
Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy
- Chapter:
- (p.236) 20 Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy
- Source:
- Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510
- Author(s):
Moshe Idel
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter deals with two different forms of the artificial anthropoids discussed in medieval and Renaissance literature. This topic is crucial for an understanding of Jewish esotericism in general, as well as its metamorphoses in Jewish folklore and literature both inside and outside Judaism. As Yehuda Liebes put it, this topic is the acme of kabbalistic literature. Its presence in Italian Jewish and Christian authors and its transformations in the different models of Kabbalah illustrate the vitality of the topic of artificial anthropoids in Italy and the methodological importance of the three models. The discussions that arrived in the Italian peninsula from Germany and Spain were interpreted, transmitted, and translated into Latin there.
Keywords: artificial anthropoids, Renaissance literature, Jewish esotericism, Jewish folklore, Yehuda Liebes
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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
