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Francis Mercury van Helmont's Sketch of Christian Kabbalism
Translated and Edited by Sheila A. Spector
Series: - Aries Book Series, Volume: 15
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Sheila A. Spectorâs 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 Rosenrothâs 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, Spectorâs 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 Helmontâs footnotes supplemented by the translatorâs endnotes. The edition is essential for scholars, though of interest to the general reader as well.
Independent scholar Sheila A. Spector (Ph.D. 1976, University of Maryland), published the book-length bibliography Jewish Mysticism (Garland, 1984), and Glorious Incomprehensibleâ: The Development of Blakeâs Kabbalistic Language, and âWonders Divineâ: The Development of Blakeâs Kabbalistic Myth (both Bucknell UP, 2001).
Scholars interested in the history of religion, Christianity, Western esotericism, Jewish Studies, and Jewish and Christian Kabbalism, as well as comparative literature, the history of ideas, seventeenth-century studies. Also, the general reader interested in the occult.