Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 20:08:26 -0800
From: "Thad Q. Alexander" <rattler-AT-inreach.net>
Subject: Re: PLC: Dante's possible sources


I don't understand what your talking about, is this what you are asking
for? The Jews had all been taken by god, those that had died before
Christ. Dante wants to know about the "Harrowing of Hell" when Christ
paid a visit to limbo to release the ancient Hebrews who had believed in
His coming so he asked Virgil and his spirit explains this in Lns 46-63
in canto IV. Is this what you are asking?
Me

Patsloane-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> > Weren't both Averroes and Moses Maimonides in Sevilla or thereabouts for at
> >  least part of their careers? No time to check. They I think were the
> >  respective high-water-mark Aristotelians of the high middle ages in Islam
> >  and Judaism, if memory serves (no time to check that either).
> >
> Greg,
> 
> We'll talk more about this at some point.  When I saw Dante mentioning
> Avicenna and Averhoes but not Maimonides, it dawned on me that he had no Jews
> in Limbo, only virtuous heathen.  So the rest of Commedia, up until parad. 32
> (Saint Bernard of Clairvaux) is a question of what happened to the Jews.
> 
> pat
> 
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