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Book SynopsisThe present volume contains articles based on papers delivered at the two international conferences organized as part of the Between Two Worlds research project in 2017 and 2019. Obadiah Sforno was an influential Jewish thinker of sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance, whose religious and exegetical authority has had an enduring legacy. The collected essays offer an unprecedented and much desired overview of his life and thought with an emphasis on the neglected philosophical dimension of his oeuvre, as seen in both his biblical commentaries and his sole philosophical treatise Light of the Nations.
Table of ContentsContents Prelude Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Obadiah Sforno: Between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Giuseppe Veltri Part 1: Biography 2 Sforno on Wealth, Work, and Charity Andrew Berns 3 Roman Holiday: Conjectures on Johann Reuchlin as a Pupil of Obadiah Sforno Saverio Campanini Part 2: Philosophy 4 “A Fourth Kind of Being”: The Legacy of Averroes in Obadiah Sforno’s Theory of the Intellect Symon Foren 5 Averroes and Sforno on God’s Knowledge of Particulars Steven Harvey 6 The Concept of Time in Sforno: The Philosophical and Exegetical Interpretation of the Creation of the World Giada Coppola 7 Sforno on Intellectual imitatio Dei Warren Zev Harvey 8 Between Two Versions: A Hebrew Manuscript and an Argument for Latin Priority Florian Dunklau Part 3: Exegesis 9 Job et les fins de la providence : exégèse, théologie systématique et cohérence de l’œuvre de R. Obadia Sforno Jean-Pierre Rothschild 10 The Footprints and Influence of Or ʿAmmim in Sforno’s Exegetical Works Moshe Kravetz Part 4: Environment and Reception 11 Elijah da Nola and Moses Finzi: Medicine and Aristotelianism in Sixteenth-Century Bologna Guido Bartolucci 12 The Philosophical Syntax of Obadiah Sforno’s Psalms Commentary Yael Sela Index
