The Christian Kabbalah: Jewish Mystical Books & Their Christian Interpreters : a SymposiumJoseph Dan Renaissance scholars, searching for esoteric and ancient wisdom to confirm the truth of Christianity, fastened on the Jewish kabbalah. The body of ideas that emerged, the Christian kabbalah, made for some remarkable episodes in the history of Jewish-Christian relations, and eventually interested even such unlikely figures as G.W. Leibniz. This volume presents five original papers from a 1996 symposium on this subject, along with a catalogue of the accompanying exhibition, describing 52 manuscript and printed items from Harvard's collections. Also included in the classic 1954 essay of Gershom Scholem, The Beginnings of the Christian Kabbalah, not previously available in English. |
Contents
Foreword II | 11 |
The beginnings of the Christian kabbalah | 17 |
The kabbalah of Johannes Reuchlin and its historical significance | 55 |
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