This international conference is part of the ongoing activities of the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel, in association with Professor Giuseppe Veltri (Halle-Wittenberg). Its aim is to present bibliographical and intellectual portraits of Jewish scholars and to examine their perceptions of their own identity (as scholars, philosophers, viri docti, hakhamim, talmidei hakhamim, etc.) and their influence on Judaism and Christianity. The participants will place some Jewish scholars (Yosef Albo, Elia del Medigo, Yohanan Alemanno, Yosef ha-Kohen, Amatus Lusitanus, Moshe Cordovero, Yehuda Moscato, Leone Ebreo, Abraham and David Provenzale, Azaria de' Rossi, Abraham Portaleone) in context, delineating both their intellectual background and their subjective views of their own place in the scholarly world.
The main purpose is to trace out a map of Jewish scholarly self-perception and the adoption of Jewish scholarly thought in the Christian Renaissance, where the vir doctus was the microcosm of the templum mundi, the mirror of divine knowledge based on the illusion of the universality of the respublica christiana sive literaria.
Conference convenors
Herzog August Bibliothek (Wolfenbuettel, Germany)
Leopold-Zunz-Zentrum (Wittenberg) and Seminar fuer Juedische Studien (Halle)
Conference venue
Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbuettel
Further information
Seminar fuer Juedische Studien, Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg
Tel.: +49-345-5524064/60; Fax: +49-345-5527200;
Email: veltri@judaistik.uni-halle.de
Sunday, 17 September
20.00 Opening Session
Introduction: Director of the Herzog August Bibliothek
Introduction: Heribert Smolinsky (Arbeitskreis Renaissance)
Opening Remarks: Giuseppe Veltri (Seminar fuer Juedische Studien and Leopold Zunz Zentrum, Halle-Wittenberg)
Opening Lecture:
David Ruderman (Pennsylvania University): Reflections on the Social and Cultural Role of the Jewish Intellectual in the Renaissance and Early Modern Europe (1450-1700)
Monday, 18 September
Session 1: Jewish Scholarship and Humanist Culture
Chair: Martin Jacobs
9.00-10.00
Adam Shear (Pennsylvania University): Yehudah Moscato - A Jewish Humanist?
10.00-11.00
Joanna Weinberg (London): Azaria de' Rossi - Father of Scholars
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.30
Session 2: Biography and Historiography
Chair: Friedrich Niew=F6hner=20
Fabrizio Lelli (Florence): The Reappraisal of Biography and Autobiography in Alemanno's Writings
12.30-13.30
Martin Jacobs (Freie Universitaet Berlin): Yosef ha-Kohen, Paolo Giovio and
Sixteenth-Century Historiography
13.30-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.00
Session 3: Vir doctus between Religions and Confessions
Chair: Alessandro Guetta
Chaim Hames (Ben Gurion University): Two Truths, Two Religions - Renaissance, Judaism and Christianity for Elijah del Medigo
16.00-17.00
Eliezer Gutwirth: Amatus Lusitanus and Converso Culture
17.00-17.30 Coffee
17.30 - 18.30 Guided tour of the Herzog August Library
Tuesday, 18 September
Session 4: Philosophy and the Sciences
Chair : Heribert Smolinsky
9.00-10.00
Sina Rauschenbach (Freie Universitaet Berlin): Josef Albo - Between Science and Faith
10.00-11.00
Alessandro Guetta (Inalco): De Moshe da Rieti a Abraham Portaleone: Une nouvelle conception de l'espace?
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30- 12.30
Session 5: Attitudes to Philosophy
Chair : Daniel Abrams
Giuseppe Veltri (Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg): Leone Ebreo's Concept of a Jewish Philosophy.
12.30-13.30
Gianfranco Miletto (Martin-Luther-Universitaet Halle-Wittenberg): David ben Abraham Provenzale et son fils Abraham - Un projet pedagogique dans son contexte historique
13.30-15.00 Lunch
15.00-16.00
Session 6: Philosophy and Kabbalah
Chair : David Ruderman
Daniel Abrams (Bar Ilan University): Hypostatic Wisdom and Imitatio Dei - Kabbalistic Interpretations of Attaining Wisdom through the Renaissance
16.00-17.00
Johann Maier (Weilheim [Obb.]): The significance of Philosophy for the Kabbalah of Moshe Cordovero
17.00-17.30 Coffee
17.30-18.30
Moshe Idel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Late Renaissance Interactions between Kabbalah and Philosophy
18.30-19.00 Conclusions
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