Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician
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Title
Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician
Subject
Jagel, Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi, active 16th century-17th century
Jewish scholars -- Italy -- Biography
Judaism and science
Jewish magic
Cabala -- History
Jewish scholars -- Italy -- Biography
Judaism and science
Jewish magic
Cabala -- History
Creator
David B. Ruderman
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
Date
1988
Table Of Contents
The ordeals and rewards of living : a biographical portrait of Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel -- The art of healing -- Demonology and disease -- Unicorns, great beasts, and the marvelous variety of nature -- Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings -- Comets and the new heavens -- On stretching the permissible : the place of magic in Judaism -- On divine justice, metempsychosis, and purgatory -- Ancient theology, the Kabbalah, and the status of Judaism in western civilization.
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David B. Ruderman , “Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician,” Humanities Hub, accessed December 21, 2024, https://humanitieshub.sdsu.edu/omeka/items/show/735.