Gender, Kabbalah, and the Reformation : : the mystical theology of Guillaume Postel, 1510-1581 / / by Yvonne Petry.

This study examines one of the most unusual figures of the sixteenth century, Guillaume Postel, who believed that a female messiah had arrived on earth who would usher in a new age of political and religious harmony. He grounded this prophecy in the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, and relie...

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Superior document:Studies in medieval and Reformation thought ; Volume 98
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Studies in medieval and Reformation thought ; Volume 98.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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