Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation

The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16250-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 137, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

Focusing 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilkinson, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Plates

Introduction

1. First Beginnings: Teseo Ambrogio and the Maronite Delegation to the Fifth Lateran Council
2. First Beginnings: Egidio da Viterbo and the Kabbalistic Content of Syriac Studies at the time of the Fifth Lateran Council
3. The Scholars of the Editio Princeps: Moses and Masius
4. The Scholars of the Editio Princeps: Postel
5. The Scholars of the Editio Princeps: Widmanstetter
6. The Editio Princeps

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Robert J. Wilkinson, Ph.D. (2004) in History, University of the West of England, read Oriental Studies at Cambridge. He is Research Fellow at Wesley College, Bristol, U.K. His Kabbalistic Scholars of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Brill) is appearing as a companion volume.