By Benedicta Ward, St. Anselm of Canterbury
Combining own ardor and scrupulous theology, Prayers and Meditations bargains an intimate view of this Archbishop of Canterbury, so much famous for his reputation of rational inquiry into the mysteries of religion.
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60 See Wirszubski, Pico’s Encounter, 106–113. 3. Johanan Alemanno . 61 Around 1488 Pico made the acquaintance of another Jewish scholar, Johanan . Alemanno (c. 62 Alemanno’s interests, attested by his bibliography, have several points of contact with biblical interpretation in general and the Heptaplus in particular. 64 But unlike Mithridates and Delmedigo, we have no record of Alemanno ever having provided Pico with anything in Latin. The point that Alemanno and Pico had a common interest in biblical exegesis and the idea of intellectual ascent is easily made.
Bondoni and S. Campanini (Turin: Nino Aragno, 2004). 54 Wirszubski, Pico’s Encounter, 61. , 60–61. , 16–19. pico’s life and works 17 it omits two kabbalistic texts of central importance, the Sefer Yez. irah and the Zohar. 58 The translated corpus includes more than one strand of kabbalah. 59 His understanding was that the kabbalah had been handed down orally from Moses: the places and dates of composition of these texts were therefore of relative unimportance. These manuscripts are the single most significant channel through which Hebrew thought, specifically kabbalah, was made available to Pico.
61 Around 1488 Pico made the acquaintance of another Jewish scholar, Johanan . Alemanno (c. 62 Alemanno’s interests, attested by his bibliography, have several points of contact with biblical interpretation in general and the Heptaplus in particular. 64 But unlike Mithridates and Delmedigo, we have no record of Alemanno ever having provided Pico with anything in Latin. The point that Alemanno and Pico had a common interest in biblical exegesis and the idea of intellectual ascent is easily made.