Don Isaac Abravanel: Statesman and Philosopher by B. Netanyahu

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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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• ISBN: 0801484855
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Pub. Date: December 1998
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Comments from the Seller: 1999-02 Paperback Very Good Book is unmarked, spine uncreased, binding tight. Minor use wear. Light shelf and edge wear to cover.

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