Seeing with both eyes : Ephraim Luntshitz and the Polish-Jewish renaissance / / by Leonard S. Levin.

This is an integrated study of the revival of philosophical studies in 16th-century central-European Jewry focusing on seven major thinkers and especially on the intellectual development of Ephraim Luntshitz (1550-1619). Preoccupation with philosophy is traced through Moses Isserles, Solomon Luria,...

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Superior document:Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, v. 2
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2008.
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 2.
Physical Description:1 online resource (472 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Circles of infuence: Polish Jewish thought in the age of the late Renaissance
  • The first wave (1550-1580) : Isserles, Jaffe, and Horowitz
  • Young Ephraim: Ephraim's early outlook as expressed in City of Heroes
  • The debate between Eliezer and Maharal
  • Ephraim discovers philosophy
  • The quest of reason: the outlook of the Precious Ornament (part 1)
  • Return to origins: the outlook of the Precious Ornament (part 2)
  • Conclusion.