Pico's Heptaplus and biblical hermeneutics /

Pico's Heptaplus and biblical hermeneutics / / by Crofton Black.

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This is the first full-length study of the Heptaplus , the commentary on the creation narrative of Genesis 1 by the celebrated Italian philosopher Giovanni Pico della Mirandola. It focuses on Pico's theory of allegory. This theory was fundamentally dissimilar to mainstream medieval and Renaissa...

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Superior document:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions, v. 116
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Black, Crofton.
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation traditions ; v. 116.
Physical Description:1 online resource (284 p.)
Notes:Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of London, 2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Pico's Life and Works
  • 2. The Heptaplus in Outline
  • 3. Exegetical Contexts
  • 4. The First Proem: Traditions of Esotericism
  • 5. The Second Proem: Pico's Cosmic Model and Exegesis as Anagogy
  • 6. Knowledge, Felicitas and Hermeneutics
  • 7. The Beginning and the End: Bereshit and the Sabbath
  • Appendix to Chapter 7
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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