ABSTRACT
The expulsion from Spain did not only result in the destruction and dispersion of Spanish Jewry but led to a crisis in Jewish faith. Don Isaac Abravanel provided a systematic treatment of the main philosophical and theological beliefs of Judaism in an attempt to resolve the inner doubts of his co-religionists. In their Italian exile his son Judah too recognized that Jews were now living in a new cultural world, but he forged a different road for Jews to pursue in their entry into the culture of the Renaissance. This book presents a picture of one family facing the challenges of a new era in Jewish history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |31 pages
Introduction
chapter |11 pages
Abravanel's life and works
chapter |12 pages
Hasdai Crescas and the crisis of 1391
chapter |6 pages
Crescas' philosophical legacy
part |128 pages
Isaac Abravanel's philosophy of Judaism
chapter |5 pages
The nature of religious belief
chapter |27 pages
Creation of the world
chapter |16 pages
Miracles
chapter |17 pages
Prophecy
chapter |17 pages
Divine omniscience and human choice
chapter |11 pages
Immortality of the soul
chapter |4 pages
Resurrection of the dead
chapter |9 pages
Divine providence
chapter |9 pages
The Messiah
chapter |11 pages
Isaac Abravanel – A Renaissance man?
part |28 pages
Judah Abravanel – “An inheritance for your children”