TY - BOOK AU - Veltri,Giuseppe AU - Miletto,Gianfranco TI - Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish intellectual world of Mantua in 16th-17th century T2 - Studies in Jewish History and Culture SN - 9789004222465 AV - BM755.M59 R33 2012 U1 - 296.092B 23 CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill. KW - Moscato, Judah ben Joseph, KW - Rabbis KW - Italy KW - Mantua KW - Biography KW - Congresses KW - Jews KW - Intellectual life KW - 16th century KW - 17th century N1 - "Proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua's State Archives"--ECIP data view; Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-314) and index; Preliminary Material; Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto --; Judah Moscato. His Life and His Work Judah Moscato:; Gianfranco Miletto --; Principles of Jewish Skeptical Thought. The Case of Judah Moscato and Simone Luzzatto; Giuseppe Veltri --; Moscato as Eulogizer; Marc Saperstein --; On Kabbalah in R. Judah Moscato’s Qol Yehudah; Moshe Idel --; Amicitia and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato’s Nefuṣot Yehudah; Bernard Dov Cooperman --; Judah Moscato, Abraham Portaleone, and Biblical Incense in Late Renaissance Mantua; Andrew Berns --; Judah Moscato’s Sources and Hebrew Printing in the Sixteenth Century:; Adam Shear --; The Jewish intellectual World of Mantua in 16th–17th centuries The Gonzaga Archives of Mantua and Their Rearrangements Over the Centuries, along with an Overview of Archival Materials on Mantuan Jewry; Daniela Ferrari --; The Levi Dynasty:; Don Harrán --; Spatial Stories:; Dana E. Katz --; Saladin the Crusader, the Christian Haman, and the Off-key Priest:; Claudia Rosenzweig --; Some Unknown 16th-Century Documents about Abraham Yagel and a Possible Link to the Controversy about the “Holy Diana” in the Mantuan Synagogue; Daniel Jütte --; On Abraham’s Neck. The Editio Princeps of the Sefer Yeṣirah (Mantua 1562) and Its Context; Saverio Campanini --; The Italian Translation of the Psalms by Judah Sommo; Alessandro Guetta --; Savants and Scholars in Jewish Mantua:; Shlomo Simonsohn --; Bibliography; Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto --; Subject Index; Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. This volume is a record of the proceedings of an international conference, organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies at Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), and Mantua’s State Archives. It consists of contributions on Moscato and the intellectual world in Mantua during the 16th and 17th centuries UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004222465 ER -