Language:
English
Year of publication:
2022
Titel der Quelle:
European Journal of Jewish Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
16,2 (2022) 355-373
Keywords:
Abravanel, Isaac, Translations into Latin
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Knorr von Rosenroth, Christian,
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Bible. Commentaries
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Early works to 1800
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Christian Hebraists
Abstract:
This article examines a previously ignored and unpublished manuscript of the Christian kabbalistic scholar Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, the compiler of Kabbala Denudata, restores it to its proper order, and conclusively identifies it as his personal translation into Latin of Isaac Abarbanel’s Introduction to the Prophet Isaiah prepared, we suggest, for this own use and not for publication. Though much of Knorr’s previously known work was based upon kabbalistic materials, Abarbanel’s Introduction—not a kabbalistic work by contrast—offered a comprehensive view of the Hebrew Bible’s prophetic hope. Knorr’s Messias Puer, also newly recovered, enables us to discover several of his personal convictions otherwise previously unattested. One of these is his anticipation of a future, this-worldly, Davidic kingdom in the Holy Land. It is in the context of this anticipation of the Consolation of Israel that the translation of the Introduction to the Prophet Isaiah may now be plausibly placed.
DOI:
10.1163/1872471X-bja10045
URL:
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