Classical Oratory and the Sephardim of Amsterdam: Rabbi Aguilar's "Tratado de la Retórica"

Classical Oratory and the Sephardim of Amsterdam: Rabbi Aguilar's "Tratado de la Retórica"
ISBN-10
9065505474
ISBN-13
9789065505477
Category
Rhetoric
Pages
146
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Uitgeverij Verloren
Author
S. Berger

Description

Messer Leon , balancing between medieval and Renaissance attitudes , " was a good pupil of the masters he chose to ... While the former advocates a method of interpreting the Bible as a literary text , the latter advances guidelines ...

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