Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New TestamentFocusing upon the extraordinary circumstances of the production of the editio princeps of the Syriac New Testament in 1555 and establishing a reliable history of that edition, this book offers an new account of the origin of Syriac studies in Europe and a fresh evaluation of Catholic Orientalism in the sixteenth century. The reception of Syriac into the West is shown to have been characterised, under the influence of Egidio da Viterbo and Postel, by a Christian Kabbalistic world-view which also determined the reception of other Oriental languages. The companion volume The Kabbalistic Scholars of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible exhibits the continuing influence of Christian Kabbalism on later editions. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Teseo Ambrogio and the Maronite Delegation to the Fifth Lateran Council | 11 |
Egidio da Viterbo and the Kabbalistic Context of Syriac Studies at the Time of the Fifth Lateran Council | 29 |
Moses and Masius | 63 |
Postel | 95 |
Widmanstetter | 137 |
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Angelic Pope annotations Arabic Arabica Aramaic Armenian Basle Bible bibliography Biblioteca Bibliothèque d'Humanisme Bobzin Boderie Bomberg Cardinal Cervini Chaldaean Church copy d'Humanisme et Renaissance Dedicatio discussed E. J. Brill editio princeps edition Egidio da Viterbo Elias Elias Levita Ethiopic Ferdinand Fifth Lateran Council François Galatinus Geschichte Giles of Viterbo Girolamo Seripando Greek Guillaume Postel Guy Lefèvre Hebraica Hebrew High Renaissance interest Jewish Jews juives Kabbale Kabbalistes chrétiens kabbalistic Koran pg Kuntz language Latin letter Levi della Vida Levita Library lingua liturgy Lossen manuscript Maronite Masius Masius's Moses Mother Joanna Müller mystical Oriental Paris Patriarch Perles Pico Postel pg Postello printed Prophetic Rome Psalter quae Reformation Reuchlin Revue Ricerche pg Roma Rome Samaritans Scechina scholars script Secret Sephirotic siècle sixteenth century Sulaqa Syriac New Testament Syriac studies Talmud Tasfa Teseo Teseo Ambrogio tradition translation Vatican Venice Vienna Widmanstetter Widmanstetter pg Widmanstetter's Zohar