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