Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher by B. Netanyahu
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- Pub. Date: December 1998
- 368pp
- Sales Rank: 511,590
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: December 1998
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Format: Other Format, 368pp
- Sales Rank: 511,590
- ISBN-13: 9780801484858
- ISBN: 0801484855
- Edition Number: 5
- Edition Description: REVISED
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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 arid 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.
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Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopherby Anonymous
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January 20, 2004: 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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