Confronting Kabbalah : : studies in the Christian Hebraist library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter / / Maximilian de Molie`re.

• VerfasserIn: Molière, Maximilian de,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL Academic Publishers,, 2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (1506-1557), humanist and privy councillor to popes and kings, has remained an enigmatic figure among Christian Hebraists whose views were little understood. This study leverages Widmanstetter's remarkable collection consisting of hundreds of Jewish manuscripts and printed books, most of which survive to this day. Explore in the first half the story of Jewish book production and collecting in sixteenth-century Europe through Widmanstetter's book acquisitions, librarianship, and correspondence. Delve into his unique perspective on Jewish literature and Kabbalah as the latter half of the study contextualizes the marginal notes in his library with his published works"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Christian Hebraist Book Collecting in the Era of Expulsions of Jews -- Coveted Kabbalah: Widmanstetter's Collaboration with Jewish and Convert Scribes -- Barrels of Books: The Care of a Christian Hebraist Library -- Exceeding Piety: Widmanstetter's Hebraitas -- "Muhammad's Jewish Heresies": Reading the Quran through Kabbalistic Books -- Revisiting Kabbalah: The Sefirotic Tree in the Syriac New Testament.