Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics
Biographical note
Crofton Black read English and Classics at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and completed his Ph.D. in 2004 at the Warburg Institute, London. He has also worked as a translator and cataloguer of Latin and Arabic manuscripts.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, allegory, biblical hermeneutics, the Christian reception of kabbalah and the problem of epistemology in scholastic Aristotelianism.
Reviews
'[…] the author succeeds brilliantly: Crofton Black provides a reliable and authoritative presentation of the aim and arguments of Pico’s Heptaplus, and he successfully situates the work within the history of biblical exegesis. […] the book sets a very high standard for Pico scholarship..'
M.V. Dougherty, Ohio Dominican University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, no 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 509-511.
[...] a fascinating treatment of an intriguing and influential figure within the world of late-Medieval Renaissance Humanism. The monograph is well organized and well written, and shuold be of interest to anyone studying humanism, biblical exegesis, or intellectual history. [...] Black is deserving of thanks from the scholarly community for producing such a lively and engaging study". Jon Balserak, University of Birmingham. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 39, no. 3 (Fall 2008), pp. 781-782.
M.V. Dougherty, Ohio Dominican University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, no 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 509-511.
[...] a fascinating treatment of an intriguing and influential figure within the world of late-Medieval Renaissance Humanism. The monograph is well organized and well written, and shuold be of interest to anyone studying humanism, biblical exegesis, or intellectual history. [...] Black is deserving of thanks from the scholarly community for producing such a lively and engaging study". Jon Balserak, University of Birmingham. In: Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 39, no. 3 (Fall 2008), pp. 781-782.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Pico’s Life and Works
2. The Heptaplus in Outline
3. Exegetical Contexts
4. The First Proem: Traditions of Esotericism
5. The Second Proem: Pico’s Cosmic Model and Exegesis as Anagogy
6. Knowledge, Felicitas and Hermeneutics
7. The Beginning and the End: Bereshit and the Sabbath
Appendix to Chapter 7
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Pico’s Life and Works
2. The Heptaplus in Outline
3. Exegetical Contexts
4. The First Proem: Traditions of Esotericism
5. The Second Proem: Pico’s Cosmic Model and Exegesis as Anagogy
6. Knowledge, Felicitas and Hermeneutics
7. The Beginning and the End: Bereshit and the Sabbath
Appendix to Chapter 7
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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