Confronting Kabbalah : : studies in the Christian Hebraist library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter / / Maximilian de Molie`re.

"Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (1506-1557), humanist and privy councillor to popes and kings, has remained an enigmatic figure among Christian Hebraists whose views were little understood. This study leverages Widmanstetter's remarkable collection consisting of hundreds of Jewish manuscrip...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL Academic Publishers,, 2024.
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Series
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Christian Hebraist Book Collecting in the Era of Expulsions of Jews
  • Coveted Kabbalah: Widmanstetter's Collaboration with Jewish and Convert Scribes
  • Barrels of Books: The Care of a Christian Hebraist Library
  • Exceeding Piety: Widmanstetter's Hebraitas
  • "Muhammad's Jewish Heresies": Reading the Quran through Kabbalistic Books
  • Revisiting Kabbalah: The Sefirotic Tree in the Syriac New Testament.