Originally published in The Heythrop Journal, A Quarterly Review of Philosophy and Theology, 25: 1 (January 1984), pp. 342-3. The World of the Renaissance Jew: The Life and Thought of Abraham ben Mordecai Farissol. By David B. Ruderman. pp. xvii, 265, Cincinatti, Hebrew Union College Press, 1981, $20.00. Abraham Farissol (1452-1528) was born in Avignon but spent…
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