Renaissance and rebirth
Subtitle: reincarnation in early modern Italian kabbalah
By: Brian Ogren.
Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture -- v. 24
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9789004177642
Subjects: Transmigration -- Judaism; Reincarnation -- Judaism; Future life -- Judaism; Soul -- Judaism; Cabala; Renaissance -- Italy; Philosophy, Medieval; Philosophy, Jewish
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Metempsychosis, philosophy and Kabbalah : the debate in Candia; title: The extra-debatal literature of Candia and questions of Identity; title: Three philosophical and mystical possibilities of    metempsychosis : Isaac Abarbanel; title: Spanish and Italian conceptions of metempsychosis in Judah Hayyat; title: Elia Hayyim ben Binyamin of Genazzano, Prisca Theologia, and the two ancient paths to   metempsychosis; title: Unity and diversity in Gilgul : Yohanan Alemanno; title: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and the allegorical veridicality of transmigration; title: Marsilio Ficino, circularity and rebirth.