{"product_id":"isaac-abarbanels-stance-toward-tradition-eric-lawee-9780791451267","title":"Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition: Defense, Dissent, and Dialogue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplores the thought of Isaac Abarbanel, courtier-financier and important Jewish thinker at the turn of the sixteenth century, from the perspective of his negotiation with Jewish tradition.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2002 Nauchman Sokol-Mollie Halberstadt Prize in Biblical\/Rabbinic Scholarship presented by the Canadian Jewish Book Awards\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist, 2002 Scholarship Morris J. and Betty Kaplun Award presented by the National Jewish Book Council \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinancier and courtier to the kings of Portugal, Spain, and Italy and Spanish Jewry's foremost representative at court at the time of its 1492 expulsion, Isaac Abarbanel was also Judaism's leading scholar at the turn of the sixteenth century. His work has had a profound influence on both his contemporaries and later thinkers, Jewish and Christian. Isaac Abarbanel's Stance Toward Tradition is the first full-length study of Abarbanel in half a century. The book considers a wide range of Abarbanel's writings, focusing for the first time on the dominant exegetical side of his intellectual achievements as reflected in biblical commentaries and messianic writings. Author Eric Lawee approaches Abarbanel's work from the perspective of his negotiations with texts and teachings bequeathed to him from the Jewish past. The work provides insight into the important spiritual and intellectual developments in late medieval and early modern Judaism while offering a portrait of a complex scholar whose stance before tradition combined conservatism with creativity and reverence with daring.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Lawee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791451267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791451267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.70w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2002 pg. 13","brand":"Eric Lawee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065126793471,"sku":"9780791451267","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ca85266b-d9f6-4639-a814-5216ffae7d37.jpg?v=1768673167","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/isaac-abarbanels-stance-toward-tradition-eric-lawee-9780791451267","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}