Francis Mercury van Helmont's Sketch of Christian Kabbalism [electronic resource] / translated and edited by Sheila A. Spector.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699.

Contributor:

Spector, Sheila A., 1946-

Series:

Aries book series ; v. 15.

Aries book series, 1871-1405 ; v. 15

Standardized Title:

Adumbratio Kabbalae Christiana. English & Latin

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala.

Cabala and Christianity.

Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van, 1614-1699. Adumbratio Kabbalae Christiana.

Helmont, Franciscus Mercurius van.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (191 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sheila A. Spector’s translation of the Sketch of Christian Kabbalism, by Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-98), is the first English version of the foundational seventeenth-century treatise appended to Knorr von Rosenroth’s compendium, the Kabbala Denudata. After a survey of the historical context in general, Jewish and Christian Kabbalah in particular, and a brief biography of van Helmont, Spector’s introduction explains how the author adapted the original Jewish myth for Christian purposes. The bilingual text contains a facsimile of the original Latin on one side, facing the English translation on the other, with Van Helmont’s footnotes supplemented by the translator’s endnotes. The edition is essential for scholars, though of interest to the general reader as well.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Preliminaries

I-XII

Translator’s Notes

Works Cited

Index of Biblical References

General Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-68811-4

9786613665058

90-04-22724-5

OCLC:

795120525

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004227248 DOI