Hebraic Aspects of the Renaissance Sources and Encounters

• Main Authors: Zinguer, Ilana, Melamed, Abraham, Shalev, Zur
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston BRILL 2011
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Cabala and Christianity-Italy-Congresses; Christian Hebraists-Europe-History-Congresses; Christianity and other religions-Judaism-Congresses; Civilization, Modern-Jewish influences-Congresses; Jewish philosophy-History-Congresses; Judaism-Relations-Christianity-Congresses; Renaissance-Congresses

This collection of essays offers a fresh look into Christian-Jewish cultural interactions during the Renaissance and beyond. Christian scholars, it is shown, were deeply immersed in a variety of Hebrew sources, while their Jewish counterparts imbibed the culture of Humanism.