Obadiah Sforno: Light of the Nations: Or ʿammim / Lumen Gentium

by Giuseppe Veltri (Other), Giada Coppola (Other), Florian Dunklau (Other)

Overview

Light of the Nations is a philosophical work written by the Jewish intellectual and eminent biblical commentator Obadiah Sforno (ca. 1475–1550). His treatise, an apology for both Jewish and universal monotheistic beliefs, was published in Hebrew in 1537 under the title Or ‘Ammim and was translated by the author into Latin as Lumen Gentium in 1548. Written in the style of a classical medieval Scholastic summa, the treatise’s multilingual and multicultural dimensions reveal key humanist ideas that prevailed in the cities of northern Italy during the early modern period, while also speaking to its author’s abiding exegetical rationality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789004689718
Publisher:	Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	10/23/2024
Series:	Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion , #5
Pages:	528
Product dimensions:	8.46(w) x 11.38(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Giuseppe Veltri, Ph.D. (1991) and Habil. (1996), Freie Universität Berlin, is Professor of Jewish Studies and Philosophy at Universität Hamburg. He has published extensively in the field, including Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb (Brill, 2009).

Giada Coppola earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in 2012.

Florian Dunklau, M.A., is a Research Associate in the project “Premodern Hebrew Philosophic and Scientific Terminology (PESHAT in context)” at Universität Hamburg.