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Sefirotic Depiction, Divine Noesis, and Aristotelian Kabbalah: Abraham ben Meir de Balmes and Italian Renaissance Thought

Sefirotic Depiction, Divine Noesis, and Aristotelian Kabbalah: Abraham ben Meir de Balmes and... T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 104, No. 4 (Fall 2014) 573­599 BRIAN OGREN F I F TE E N TH - AN D SI X T EE N TH - CE N T UR Y Italy witnessed a conspicuous prevalence of syntheses between philosophical speculation and kabbalistic thought. This is due, in part, to the autodidactic syncretism of many Italian Jewish thinkers, who were garnering variegated forms of knowledge from diverse textual sources. It is also due, in part, to the prisca philosophia tradition of the Renaissance, which saw the revitalization of a wide range of ancient speculative sources as a necessary factor in human perfection and the search for truth. It is within this milieu that writers like the famed Jewish exegete Isaac Abravanel were able to bring Socrates into constructive dialogue with Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai.1 It is . also in this milieu that a thinker like Abravanel's illustrious son Judah, better known in humanist circles as Leone Ebreo, was able to boldly make the following assertion regarding Plato, in allusion to Kabbalah as ancient wisdom: http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Jewish Quarterly Review University of Pennsylvania Press

Sefirotic Depiction, Divine Noesis, and Aristotelian Kabbalah: Abraham ben Meir de Balmes and Italian Renaissance Thought

Ogren, Brian
Jewish Quarterly Review , Volume 104 (4) – Nov 21, 2014
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T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 104, No. 4 (Fall 2014) 573­599 BRIAN OGREN F I F TE E N TH - AN D SI X T EE N TH - CE N T UR Y Italy witnessed a conspicuous prevalence of syntheses between philosophical speculation and kabbalistic thought. This is due, in part, to the autodidactic syncretism of many Italian Jewish thinkers, who were garnering variegated forms of knowledge from diverse textual sources. It is also due, in part, to the prisca philosophia tradition of the Renaissance, which saw the revitalization of a wide range of ancient speculative sources as a necessary factor in human perfection and the search for truth. It is within this milieu that writers like the famed Jewish exegete Isaac Abravanel were able to bring Socrates into constructive dialogue with Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai.1 It is . also in this milieu that a thinker like Abravanel's illustrious son Judah, better known in humanist circles as Leone Ebreo, was able to boldly make the following assertion regarding Plato, in allusion to Kabbalah as ancient wisdom:

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