Isaac’s Fear : : An Early Modern Encyclopedia of Judaism / / David Malkiel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Malkiel, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; PART ONE --; 1. Empiricism --; 2. Palazzo Tè --; 3. The Past --; 4. Traditional Society --; PART TWO --; 5. The Sambation --; 6. Intercessory Prayer --; 7. Pollution --; 8. Christian Hebraism --; General Index --; Index of Sources
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781644697368; 9783110743210; 9783110743357; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110994544; 9783110994537
• DOI: 10.1515/9781644697368?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Malkiel.

Isaac’s Fear is a wide-ranging study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism by Isaac Lampronti, a rabbi and physician from eighteenth-century Ferrara, in Italy; this is the first encyclopedia of Judaism, with entries on thought and praxis. The book’s eight chapters are previously published studies. Isaac’s Fear represents the attempt to synthesize modern science and religious tradition, a fundamental issue then and in our own day. Encyclopedia entries illuminate the society and culture of early modern Italy, its Jewish community and the intellectual life of the author and his contemporaries.