- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
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1 Kabbalah -
2 Abraham Abulafia and Ecstatic Kabbalah -
3 Abraham Abulafia's Activity in Italy -
4 Ecstatic Kabbalah as an Experiential Lore -
5 Abraham Abulafia's Hermeneutics -
6 Eschatological Themes and Divine Names in Abulafia's Kabbalah -
7 Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin -
8 R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -
9 Menahem Recanati as a Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalist -
10 Menahem Recanati's Hermeneutics -
11 Ecstatic Kabbalah from the Fourteenth Through Mid-Fifteenth Centuries -
12 The Kabbalistic-Philosophical-Magical Exchanges in Italy -
13 Prisca Theologia -
14 R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -
15 Jewish Mystical Thought in Lorenzo IL Magnifico's Florence -
16 Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence -
17 Spanish Kabbalists in Italy after the Expulsion -
18 Two Diverging Types of Kabbalah in Late-Fifteenth-Century Italy -
19 Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb -
20 Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -
21 Astromagical Pneumatic Anthropoids from Medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -
22 The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy - Concluding Remarks
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Appendix 1 The Angel Named Righteous: From R. ʾAmittai of Oria to Erfurt and Rome -
Appendix 2 The Infant Experiment: On the Search for the First Language in Italy -
Appendix 3 R. Yohanan Alemanno's Study Program -
Appendix 4 Magic Temples and Cities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Masʾudi, Ibn Zarza, Alemanno - Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Titles
- Index of Names
Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb
Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb
- Chapter:
- (p.227) 19 Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb
- Source:
- Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510
- Author(s):
Moshe Idel
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
This chapter begins with a dominant scholarly definition of Kabbalah that regards its crucial component as a concern with the ten divine powers, the ten sefirot. In line with this view, Jewish Kabbalah emerged in Languedoc in the last decades of the twelfth century, and Christian Kabbalah in the final decades of the thirteenth. However, if we turn to another way of defining Kabbalah, found already in the eleventh century, as an esoteric tradition concerning the divine names, the situation becomes much more complex. Some passages dealing with divine names recur in Christian texts early in the thirteenth century, in the discussions of Joachim de Fiore. At the end of the same century and early in the next, Arnauld of Villanova wrote a whole treatise dealing with the divine name. Whether this treatise reflects the impact of Abraham Abulafia's Kabbalah remains to be investigated.
Keywords: scholarly definition, crucial component, ten sefirot, Jewish Kabbalah, Christian Kabbalah, esoteric tradition, divine names
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- Title Pages
- Preface
- Introduction
-
1 Kabbalah -
2 Abraham Abulafia and Ecstatic Kabbalah -
3 Abraham Abulafia's Activity in Italy -
4 Ecstatic Kabbalah as an Experiential Lore -
5 Abraham Abulafia's Hermeneutics -
6 Eschatological Themes and Divine Names in Abulafia's Kabbalah -
7 Abraham Abulafia and R. Menahem ben Benjamin -
8 R. Menahem ben Benjamin Recanati -
9 Menahem Recanati as a Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalist -
10 Menahem Recanati's Hermeneutics -
11 Ecstatic Kabbalah from the Fourteenth Through Mid-Fifteenth Centuries -
12 The Kabbalistic-Philosophical-Magical Exchanges in Italy -
13 Prisca Theologia -
14 R. Yohanan ben Yitzhaq Alemanno -
15 Jewish Mystical Thought in Lorenzo IL Magnifico's Florence -
16 Other Mystical and Magical Literatures in Renaissance Florence -
17 Spanish Kabbalists in Italy after the Expulsion -
18 Two Diverging Types of Kabbalah in Late-Fifteenth-Century Italy -
19 Jewish Kabbalah in Christian Garb -
20 Anthropoids from the Middle Ages to Renaissance Italy -
21 Astromagical Pneumatic Anthropoids from Medieval Spain to Renaissance Italy -
22 The Trajectory of Eastern Kabbalah and Its Reverberations in Italy - Concluding Remarks
-
Appendix 1 The Angel Named Righteous: From R. ʾAmittai of Oria to Erfurt and Rome -
Appendix 2 The Infant Experiment: On the Search for the First Language in Italy -
Appendix 3 R. Yohanan Alemanno's Study Program -
Appendix 4 Magic Temples and Cities in the Middle Ages and Renaissance: Masʾudi, Ibn Zarza, Alemanno - Bibliography
- Index of Manuscripts
- Index of Titles
- Index of Names
