Obadiah Sforno: Light of the Nations : Or ʿAmmim / Lumen Gentium /
Obadiah Sforno: Light of the Nations : Or ʿAmmim / Lumen Gentium /
Or ʿAmmim / Lumen Gentium
edited by Giuseppe Veltri, Giada Coppola and Florian Dunklau.
- 1 online resource (608 pages) : illustrations.
- Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion ; 5 Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025 .
- Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion ; 5. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2025. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Light of the Nations is a philosophical work written by the Jewish intellectual and eminent biblical commentator Obadiah Sforno (ca. 1475–1550). His treatise, an apology for both Jewish and universal monotheistic beliefs, was published in Hebrew in 1537 under the title Or ‘Ammim and was translated by the author into Latin as Lumen Gentium in 1548. Written in the style of a classical medieval Scholastic summa, the treatise’s multilingual and multicultural dimensions reveal key humanist ideas that prevailed in the cities of northern Italy during the early modern period, while also speaking to its author’s abiding exegetical rationality.
English
9789004689725
10.1163/9789004689725 DOI
Jewish philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval.
B759.S43
181/.06
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Light of the Nations is a philosophical work written by the Jewish intellectual and eminent biblical commentator Obadiah Sforno (ca. 1475–1550). His treatise, an apology for both Jewish and universal monotheistic beliefs, was published in Hebrew in 1537 under the title Or ‘Ammim and was translated by the author into Latin as Lumen Gentium in 1548. Written in the style of a classical medieval Scholastic summa, the treatise’s multilingual and multicultural dimensions reveal key humanist ideas that prevailed in the cities of northern Italy during the early modern period, while also speaking to its author’s abiding exegetical rationality.
English
9789004689725
10.1163/9789004689725 DOI
Jewish philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval.
B759.S43
181/.06