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Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:02 PM Subject: Re: posting on h-judaic New Book: Renaissance and Rebirth - Reincarnation in Early Modern Italian Kabbalah Ogren, Brian 2009. Hardback (x326 pp.) ISBN 978 90 04 17764 2 Brill: Studies in Jewish History and Culture, 24 Metempsychosis was a prominent element in Renaissance conceptualizations of the human being, the universe, and the place of the human person in the universe. A variety of concepts emerged in debates about metempsychosis: human to human reincarnation, human to vegetal, human to animal, and human to angelic transmigration. As a complex and changing doctrine, metempsychosis gives us a well-placed window for viewing the complex and dynamic contours of Jewish thought in late fifteenth-century Italy; as such, it enables us to evaluate Jewish thought in relation to non-Jewish Italian developments. This book addresses the problematic question of the roles and achievements of Jews who lived in Italy in the development of Renaissance culture in its Jewish and its Christian dimensions.
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