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Author: Robert John Wilkinson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9004162518
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work exposes the eschatological timetable which propted the petition for the Antwerp Polyglot and the Christian kabbalistic motivation of the scholars who worked on the text. This tradition is then traced to the 1584 Paris edition of the Syriac New Testament.
Author: Robert J. Wilkinson
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 900416250X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 a 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.
Author: Robert J. Wilkinson
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: 2015-02-05
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9789004284623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on a detailed and sustained account of Christian reception of the Hebrew divine name until the Seventeenth Century this book illustrates its vitality in several periods as a stimulus to both orthodox and heterodox theologies and imaginative structures
Author: Walter Melion
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2014-11-06
Total Pages: 549
ISBN-13: 9004275037
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Anthropomorphism – the projection of the human form onto the every aspect of the world – closely relates to early modern notions of analogy and microcosm. What had been construed in Antiquity as a ready metaphor for the order of creation was reworked into a complex system relating the human body to the body of the world. Numerous books and images - cosmological diagrams, illustrated treatises of botany and zoology, maps, alphabets, collections of ornaments, architectural essays – are entirely constructed on the anthropomorphic analogy. Exploring the complexities inherent in such work, the interdisciplinary essays in this volume address how the anthropomorphic model is fraught with contradictions and tensions, between magical and rational, speculative and practical thought. Contributors include Pamela Brekka, Anne-Laure van Bruaene, Ralph Dekoninck, Agnès Guiderdoni, Christopher P. Heuer, Sarah Kyle, Walter S. Melion, Christina Normore, Elizabeth Petcu, Bertrand Prevost, Bret Rothstein, Paul Smith, Miya Tokumitsu, Michel Weemans, and Elke Werner.
Author: Andrea Rizzi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-11-06
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9004323880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The chapters in this volume share an aim to historicize the role of the translator as a cultural and political agent in the early modern West.
Author: Euan Cameron
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 1316351742
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume charts the Bible's progress from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. During this period, for the first time since antiquity, the Latin Church focused on recovering and re-establishing the text of Scripture in its original languages. It considered the theological challenges of treating Scripture as another ancient text edited with the tools of philology. This crucial period also saw the creation of many definitive translations of the Bible into modern European vernaculars. Although previous translations exist, these early modern translators, often under the influence of the Protestant Reformation, distinguished themselves in their efforts to communicate the nuances of the original texts and to address contemporary doctrinal controversies. In the Renaissance's rich explosion of ideas, Scripture played a ubiquitous role, influencing culture through its presence in philosophy, literature, and the arts. This history examines the Bible's impact in Europe and its increasing prominence around the globe.
Author: Douglas A. Sweeney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0199793220
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scholars have long recognized that Jonathan Edwards loved the Bible. But preoccupation with his role in Western "public" life and letters has resulted in a failure to see the significance of his biblical exegesis. Douglas A. Sweeney offers the first comprehensive history of Edwards' interpretation of the Bible.
Author: E. van Staalduine-Sulman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-11-13
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9004355936
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Justifying Christian Aramaism Eveline van Staalduine-Sulman explores how Christian scholars of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century justify their study of the Targums, the Jewish Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible.
Author: Stephen G. Burnett
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-01-05
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9004222480
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Reformation transformed Christian Hebraism from the pursuit of a few into an academic discipline. This book explains that transformation by focusing on how authors, printers, booksellers, and censors created a public discussion of Hebrew and Jewish texts.
Author: Anna M. Vileno
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-12-15
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 9004443428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Messias puer is the recovered last work of Knorr von Rosenroth, the most prolific Christian Kabbalist in the sSeventeenth Ccentury. After introducing Knorr’s life and work, the book provides a critical edition of the manuscript and an annotated translation.
