- 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
The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy
The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy
- Chapter:
- (p.287) 22 The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy
- Source:
- Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510
- Author(s):
Moshe Idel
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter discusses a trajectory of knowledge in Italy which contrasts with what was discussed in the previous chapters. So far, this book has looked at material that arrived in Italy from the West. The main area pertinent to the discussion in this chapter is Crete, where a Jewish community had flourished since the fourteenth century, and which maintained strong relations with Venice, which governed the island. The earliest of the Jews to arrive in Italy from Crete and to play a significant role in Jewish culture there was R. Shemaryah Ikriti. He was a philosophically oriented thinker, active at the court of Robert of Anjou in Naples in the first part of the fourteenth century, and he perhaps had some prophetic and messianic leanings.
Keywords: trajectory of knowledge, Italy, Crete, R. Shemaryah Ikriti, Robert of Anjou, messianic leanings
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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
