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visited the last-named city and caused the death of about 200 persons. The house in which Dei Rossi lived was partly destroyed; but it happened that at the moment he and his wife were in their daughter's room, which remained uninjured. During the disturbances consequent upon the earthquake Dei Rossi
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to draw up a decree to be distributed among all Jews, ordering that the "Me'or 'Enayim" be burned. But, Joseph Karo dying before it was ready for him to sign, the decree was not promulgated, and the rabbis of Mantua contented themselves with forbidding the reading of the work by Jews under
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of inquiry in his work and did not rely solely upon tradition. But this way of dealing with subjects which the multitude reverenced as sacred called forth many criticisms on the part of his contemporaries. Prominent among his critics were
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The leading Torah scholar during the
Italian Renaissance was Rabbi Azariah Rossi (1511â1578), who translated into Hebrew the letters of Aristotle, which contained discussions between Ptolemy II and the seventy Jewish elders who
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in the Vilna edition of the "Me'or"), in which he defended his "Yeme 'Olam" against its critics. Dei Rossi, however, also had to contend with those who considered his "Me'or 'Enayim" as a heretical work.
126:(Azariah of the Red Family), a play on his name as well as a possible allusion to the fact that he lived in Catholic Italy, Rome being regarded as a spiritual heir of
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philosopher never gives the traditional interpretation of the
Biblical text. (However, he also offers a possible defense of Philo, and reserves a final judgment.)
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which entered his brain while he was returning to Rome). The third part is devoted to a study of Jewish chronology and translations from the writings of Philo,
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lived in an outlying village, where he was thrown into association with a
Christian scholar, who asked him if there existed a Hebrew translation of the
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Dei Rossi referred to his hometown Mantua as a "happy city" as it was a safe haven or a creative mecca for Jews at the time.
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passages which can not be taken literally (as, for instance, the aggadah which attributes the death of Titus to a
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The "Me'or 'Enayim" attracted the attention of many
Christian Hebraists, who translated parts of it into Latin.
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in which latter he refuted the arguments of Isaac Finzi. Later he wrote a special work entitled
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ecclesiastical history. When about the age of thirty he married and settled for a time at
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an answer to the criticisms of Moses Provençal, and a dissertation entitled
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In the second part Dei Rossi criticizes a number of the assertions of the
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garments and the glory of the Second Temple, and giving the
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