Pico's Heptaplus and Biblical Hermeneutics.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Pico's Life and Works -- 1. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Biographical Sketch -- 2. Pico's Hebrew Studies -- Chapter 2. The Heptaplus in Outline -- 1. First Exposition: De mundo elementari -- 2. Second Exposition: De mundo caelesti -- 3. Third Exposition: De mundo angelico et invisibili -- 4. Fourth Exposition: De mundo humano idest de hominis natura -- 5. Fifth Exposition: De omnibus mundis divisim ordine consequenti -- 6. Sixth Exposition: De mundorum inter se rerum omnium cognatione -- 7. Seventh Exposition: De felicitate, quae est vita aeterna -- 8. "Expositio primae dictionis, idest in principio" -- 9. Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Exegetical Contexts -- 1. Biblical Interpretation in the Fifteenth Century -- 2. The Authorities Pico Rejected -- 3. Pico's Other Commentaries -- 4. Conclusion -- Chapter 4. The First Proem: Traditions of Esotericism -- 1. Moses and the Philosophers -- 2. Three Redactions of an Argument for Esotericism: Commento, Apologia, Heptaplus -- 3. In Favour of Esotericism: Early Christian Hermeneutics -- 4. The Christian Reaction against Esotericism: Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- 5. Esotericism Maintained: Later Neoplatonism, Pseudo-Dionysius, Kabbalah -- 6. Conclusion: Pico and the Traditions of Esotericism -- Chapter 5. The Second Proem: Pico's Cosmic Model and Exegesis as Anagogy -- 1. Cosmic Structure -- 2. Allegorical Theory -- 3. Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Knowledge, Felicitas and Hermeneutics -- 1. Felicitas and the Intellect in Medieval Philosophy -- 2. The Ascent to Perfection in Pico's Works -- 3. Felicitas, Knowledge and Biblical Exegesis: The Example of Gersonides -- 4. Conclusion: Genesis and Knowledge -- Chapter 7. The Beginning and the End: Bereshit and the Sabbath.

1. Bereshit: "Expositio primae dictionis, idest in principio" -- 2. Structural Role of the Sabbath -- 3. Sabbath, Jubilee and the Gates of Understanding -- Appendix to Chapter 7 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL AND REFORMATION TRADITIONS.

This study shows how Giovanni Pico della Mirandola used Neoplatonic and kabbalistic ideas to develop an innovative theory of biblical allegory. Based on epistemology and intellectual ascent, his theory relates to scholastic debate over the action of the intellect.

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