Beyond Faith

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In Beyond Faith Hamilton explores how a collection of fifteenth-century vernacular texts recorded in Hebrew points to a form of personal religious belief shaped in a century of political and social strife, reflecting knowledge of the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition and emerging European humanism.

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Full title :Beyond Faith.

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Publication Date:2014.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014.

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Description:1 online resource (353 pages).

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ISBN:9004277374, 9789004277373, 1322343497, 9781322343495, 9789004282735, 9004282734
oclc:ocn994446402
LC Classification:PJ5016 .H36 2014
Dewey Decimal:892.48/208

Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Prooftexts: God and Knowledge in the Visión deleitable; Chapter 2 The Polemics of Sacrifice: Isaac and "Nuestro Padre" Abraham; Chapter 3 Material and Translation: The Jewish Tradition and Fifteenth-Century Humanism; Chapter 4 The Art of Memory and Forgetting: The Judeo-Andalusi and Scholastic Traditions; Chapter 5 The Wisdom of Seneca: Humanism and the Jews; Chapter 6 The Place of the Dead: The Vernacular Dance of Death and the Legacy of the Judeo-Iberian Middle Ages; Conclusion: Textual Truths; Bibliography; Index.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc Dictionaries Espagnol (Langue) -- Sources Hebrew literature Hebrew literature -- Dictionaries. -- H… Hebrew literature, Medieval Hebrew literature, Medieval -- Dictiona… Jews -- Sources Juifs -- Sources Ladino language -- Hebrew Sources Spain Spanish language Spanish language -- Hebrew Spanish language -- Sources To 1500