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I've uploaded text from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, and updated it using what I could find on the net. I haven't unfortunately been able to consult either Rabinowitz or the relevant pages of Tirosh-Rothschild, which are probably the two most imporant sources.
Things I haven't added, that probably should be fitted in:
The article could also probably use a rather better lead, and a thorough going over for style. But this is where I'm going to leave it for the time being. Jheald 11:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
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Jewish philosophy from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a paragraph which puts Messer Leon nicely into context, and describes The Book of the Honeycomb’s Flow as "a masterpiece of cross-cultural humanistic scholarship".
It also flags the relevance of Messer Leon's attitude to Kabbalah, with its growing significance at the time: "But Messer Leon failed to curb the spread of Kabbalah, whose underlying Platonic metaphysics he abhorred and whose appropriation by Christian Platonists he held in deep suspicion. Indeed, his own son turned toward the Kabbalah and sought to combine its teachings with the Aristotelianism favored by his father". Jheald 10:47, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
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I've uploaded text from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, and updated it using what I could find on the net. I haven't unfortunately been able to consult either Rabinowitz or the relevant pages of Tirosh-Rothschild, which are probably the two most imporant sources.
Things I haven't added, that probably should be fitted in:
The article could also probably use a rather better lead, and a thorough going over for style. But this is where I'm going to leave it for the time being. Jheald 11:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
The article
Jewish philosophy from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy has a paragraph which puts Messer Leon nicely into context, and describes The Book of the Honeycomb’s Flow as "a masterpiece of cross-cultural humanistic scholarship".
It also flags the relevance of Messer Leon's attitude to Kabbalah, with its growing significance at the time: "But Messer Leon failed to curb the spread of Kabbalah, whose underlying Platonic metaphysics he abhorred and whose appropriation by Christian Platonists he held in deep suspicion. Indeed, his own son turned toward the Kabbalah and sought to combine its teachings with the Aristotelianism favored by his father". Jheald 10:47, 7 October 2007 (UTC)