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...
| Publié dans: | European journal of jewish studies |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2021
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European journal of jewish studies
Année: 2021, Volume: 15, Numéro: 2, Pages: 201-224 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Philosophie juive
/ Bibel
/ Ange
/ Scolastique
/ Philosophie islamique
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AX Dialogue interreligieux BH Judaïsme HA Bible NBH Angélologie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | 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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| Résumé: | 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 regarding angelic nature. Zeraḥyah, following the dominant attitude among Arab, Muslim, and Jewish philosophers, strives to interpret the biblical angel-figure either naturalistically or allegorically. Conversely, Hillel cleaves more closely to Christian scholastic conceptions, adhering to the biblical narrative in the literal sense. The struggle between Jacob and the angel (Gen 32) posed one of the most challenging cases, presenting the interpreter with a situation in which an angel did not only appear but was also engaged in bodily contact. In the case of Hillel, his dual commitment as a Jewish Maimonidean heavily influenced by Latin Scholasticism led to the development of a highly unique solution. |
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| ISSN: | 1872-471X |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: European journal of jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-bja10022 |