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Isaac’s Fear: An Early Modern Encyclopedia of Judaism

✍ Scribed by David Malkiel

Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Year
2022
Tongue
English
Leaves
264
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Isaac’s Fear is a study of a Hebrew encyclopedia of Judaism from eighteenth-century Ferrara. The encylopedia synthesizes science and religion. Its entries illuminate the society and culture of early modern Italy, its Jewish community and the intellectual life of the author and his contemporaries.

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