MRPR Volume 2: 2023

This volume features contributions byJeremy Phillip Brown, Libera Pisano, Jeffrey G. Amshalem, Maria Vittoria Comacchi, Jonatan Meir, Rebecca Kneller-Rowe, Isaac Slater, Michela Torbidoni, Guido Bartolucci, and Tamir Karkason.

Open Access
[Link, Brill webpage]

Table of Contents

What Does the Messiah Know? A Prelude to Kabbalah’s Trinity Complex 
Jeremy Phillip Brown

“The Last German Jew.” A Perspectival Reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s Dual Identity through His Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute
Libera Pisano

“The Divine Philosopher.” Rebbe Pinhas of Korets’s Kabbalah as Natural Philosophy
Jeffrey G. Amshalem

Questioning Traditions. Readings of Annius of Viterbo’s Antiquitates in the Cinquecento: The Case of Judah Abarbanel
Maria Vittoria Comacchi

Bordering Two Worlds. Hillel Zeitlin’s Spiritual Diary
Jonatan Meir

Scepticism in Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Peruš Qohelet)
Rebecca Kneller-Rowe

The Forgotten Branch. Mediators of Philosophical Knowledge in Eastern European Jewish Thought
Isaac Slater

Spinoza’s Moral Scepticism. An Overview of Giuseppe Rensi’s Interpretation
Michela Torbidoni

Mobility and Creativity. David de’ Pomis and the Place of the Jews in Renaissance Italy
Guido Bartolucci

The Language of Truth. The Śefat Emet Association (Salonica 1890) and Its Taqqanot (Bylaws)
Tamir Karkason