Category:Second Temple Studies--1450s

Second Temple Studies (1450s) The page: Second Temple Studies--1450s includes (in chronological order) scholarly and literary works in the field of Second Temple Studies made in the second half of the 15th cent., or from 1450 to 1499. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Lucrezia Tornabuoni Highlights (1450s) (++) Gutenberg Bible (1452-1455 Gutenberg), edited volume De antiquitate Judaica. De bello Judaico (1470 Schüssler), book (ed. princeps - Latin) ספר יוסיפון (Josippon / 1474-76 Conat), book (Hebrew / ed. princeps) Storie sacre (1475c Tornabuoni), poetry Conclusiones philosophicae, cabalisticae et theologicae (1486 Pico della Mirandola), book Interpreters (1450s) Johannes Gutenberg (1400c-1468) Johannes Schüssler (15th cent.) Abraham Conat (15th cent.) Lucrezia Tornabuoni (1425-1482) Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

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History of Research (1450s) -- Notes

Josephus (ed. Schüssler)

Hermes Trismegistus (Cathedral of Siena)

At the roots of the modern study of "Second Temple Judaism" was the “rediscovery” of Flavius Josephus, that made post-biblical Judaism historically significant, after centuries of oblivion, in the broader context of a renewed interest in Classical Studies.

But it was the movement of the Christian Cabalists and their philosophical search for universal wisdom, that gave theological meaning and dignity to post-biblical Jewish literature. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola identified the Jewish cabalistic books as the "seventy secret books" preserved by Ezra in addition to the Torah of Moses as claimed by the Fourth Book of Ezra. Pico viewed these book as a source of philosophical truth that predated the establishment of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and was also at the foundation of the philosophy of the Egyptians and the Greeks.

Pico was a leading member of the Florentine Platonic Academy, that was established by Cosimo de' Medici and Marsilio Ficino, and focused on the study and translation of the Corpus Hermeticum. In Pico's view, there was perfect continuity between Ezra, the wisdom of the Kabbalah and the primeval wisdom of Enoch and Hermes Trismegistos; see Enochic Studies.

@2014 Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan

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  Villa di Careggi, the headquarter of the Florentine Platonic Academy since 1462

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  Monastero di Camaldoli, where the Florentine Platonic Academy held its summer meetings