Document Type
Review
Date of this Version
1984
Publication Source
Renaissance Quarterly
Volume
37
Issue
3
Start Page
432
Last Page
435
DOI
10.2307/2860962
Abstract
The idea of transplanting into English De arte cabalistica of Johannes Reuchlin is, no doubt, an exciting one. Reuchlin's work, originally published in 1517, was one of the first Latin books on the Jewish kabbalah written by a Christian. Since the writing of De verbo mirifico some twenty years earlier, Reuchlin had made considerable progress in mastering kabbalistic sources and utlized his expanded knowledge to produce an informed and sympathetic elucidation of his subject.
Copyright/Permission Statement
© 1984 by University of Chicago Press.
Recommended Citation
Ruderman, D. B. (1984). Review of Johann Reuchlin, On the Art of the Kabbalah. Renaissance Quarterly, 37 (3), 432-435. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2860962
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Date Posted: 02 August 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
At the time of this publication, Dr. Ruderman was affiliated with Yale University, but he is now a faculty member of the University of Pennsylvania.