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  • EDITION:
    5th Edition
  • ISBN:
    0801484855
  • ISBN-13:
    9780801484858
  • PUB. DATE:
    December 1998
  • PUBLISHER:
    Cornell University Press

Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher / Edition 5 by B. Netanyahu

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This work tells the story of a great figure in Jewish history through most troublesome times. It is written with great sympathy and understanding.

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Don Isaac Abravanel

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  • Pub. Date: December 1998
  • Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Don Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508) was a major historical figure during the waning of the Middle Ages. Statesman, diplomat, courtier, and financier, he was, at the same time, a scholar of encyclopedic learning, a philosopher, an exegete, a prolific author, a mystic, and an apocalyptist. In Abravanel, B. Netanyahu suggests, two long lines of tradition met and concluded: that of medieval Jewish statesmen and that of medieval Jewish philosophers. In what is both a biography and an exploration of Abravanel's thought and influence, Netanyahu describes how Abravanel illuminated the grave crisis and profound transformation experienced by the Jewish people after the Spanish expulsion.

First published in 1953, Don Isaac Abravanel has been out of print for several years. This new edition includes revisions in the text, notes, and bibliography.