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 ...
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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.
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Very Good; Softcover; Light wear to the covers; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium-Large Format (Quatro, 9.75"-10.75" tall); 1.4 lbs; Tan & red covers with title in black lettering; 1998, Houghton Publishing; 231 pages; "The Christian Kabbalah: Jewish Mystical Books and Their Christian Interpreters, " by Joseph Dan.
