Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician

Kabbalah, Magic, and Science: The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician

Jagel, Abraham ben Hananiah dei Galicchi, active 16th century-17th century
Jewish scholars -- Italy -- Biography
Judaism and science
Jewish magic
Cabala -- History

David B. Ruderman

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

1988

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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