Wrestling with Spirits: A Medieval Internal Jewish Debate on the Nature of Biblical Angels and its Arabic and Latin Sources

Abstract The article’s point of departure is a debate that took place in about 1290 between Zeraḥyah b. Isaac Ḥen and Hillel b. Samuel, two Jewish-Italian thinkers, that presents us with a surprisingly great variety of Arab, Jewish, and Latin-Christian exegetical and cosmological approaches regardin...

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Published in:European journal of jewish studies
Main Author: Shṿarts, Yosef 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: European journal of jewish studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 201-224
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jewish philosophy / Bible / Angel / Scholasticism / Islamic philosophy
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AX Inter-religious relations
BH Judaism
HA Bible
NBH Angelology; demonology
Further subjects:B Avicenna
B Maimonides
B Hillel b. Samuel
B Zeraḥyah b. Isaac Ḥen
B Albert the Great
B Thomas Aquinas
B Angels
B Medieval Philosophy
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