Mysticism, mathematics, and rationalism in an integrated whole.
Meir ha-Levi Abulafia.
The Shem Tov Bible.
The Comprehensive Book.
Lost manuscripts, competing marriage proposals, and printers making decisions.
Not translations, but appropriations.
And the rabbi who tried to convert the pope.
The astrolabe of Verona.
Abraham Ibn Daud and his Book of the Tradition.
Solomon Ibn Gabirol and Moses Ibn Ezra.
Shmuel the Statesman and dark side of the Golden Age.
How many Jews had been dragged to the baptismal font in Tortosa, and how many had just given up the struggle and gone of their own accord?
Now known as the “synagogue of the Assumption.”
Messages of hope in early printed Hebrew texts.