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Kabbalah, Magic and Science - The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (Hardcover)
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Kabbalah, Magic and Science - The Cultural Universe of a Sixteenth-Century Jewish Physician (Hardcover)
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In describing the career of Abraham Yagel, a Jewish physician,
kabbalist, and naturalist who lived in northern Italy from 1553 to
about 1623, David Ruderman observes the remarkable interplay
between early modern scientific thought and religious and occult
traditions from a wholly new perspective: that of Jewish
intellectual life. Whether he was writing about astronomical
discoveries, demons, marvelous creatures and prodigies of nature,
the uses of magic, or reincarnation, Yagel made a consistent effort
to integrate empirical study of nature with kabbalistic and
rabbinic learning. Yagel's several interests were united in his
belief in the interconnectedness of all thing-a belief, shared by
many Renaissance thinkers, that turns natural phenomena into
"signatures" of the divine unity of all things. Ruderman argues
that Yagel and his coreligionists were predisposed to this
prevalent view because of occult strains in traditional Jewish
thought He also suggests that underlying Yagel's passion for
integrating and correlating all knowledge was a powerful
psychological need to gain cultural respect and acceptance for
himself and for his entire community, especially in a period of
increased anti-Semitic agitation in Italy. Yagel proposed a bold
new agenda for Jewish culture that underscored the religious value
of the study of nature, reformulated kabbalist traditions in the
language of scientific discourse so as to promote them as the
highest form of human knowledge, and advocated the legitimate role
of the magical arts as the ultimate expression of human creativity
in Judaism. This portrait of Yagel and his intellectual world will
well serve all students of late Renaissance and early modern
Europe.
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