72 in His Name
reuchlin, luther, thenaud, wolff and the names of seventy-two angels
- Hardcover
90 pages
- Release Date
2 March 2020
Summary
Leading figures at the dawn of the sixteenth-century Reformation commonly faced the charge of “judaizing”: 72 In His Name concerns the changing views of four such men starting with their kabbalistic treatment of the 72 divine names of angels.
Johann Reuchlin, the first of the four men featured in this book,survived the charge; Martin Luther’s increasingly anti-semitic stance is contrasted with the opposite movement of the French Franciscan Jean Thenaud whose kabbalistic manuscripts w…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781644692448 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1644692449 |
| Author: | Ian Christie-Miller |
| Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
| Imprint: | Academic Studies Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 90 |
| Release Date: | 2 March 2020 |
| Weight: | 285g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 159mm |
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Critics Review
“Briefly, this work by Ian Christie-Miller has the great advantage of simply providing (often thanks to new technology, such as the use of QR Codes allowing direct access to remote images) a whole range of features which benefit the reader interested in the Shemhamphoras (to follow Thenaud’s transcription) notably about distribution of the -el and -iah endings for example; an important point unappreciated by F. Secret in his translation of Reuchlin’s treatise.”
—François Roudaut, Université Paul-Valéry (Montpellier III), Renaissance and Reformation (translated from French)
About The Author
Ian Christie-Miller
Ian Christie-Miller was a NATO interpreter and RAF Search and Rescue pilot before becoming a teacher. His London PhD research into French sixteenth-century Kabbalism led to the invention of the Early Book Imaging System and to the development of digital imaging techniques as now used for revealing watermarks. It also lead to the publication of his Traicte de la Cabale (Honore Champion, Paris, 2007), followed by a series of online and printed works mainly about sixteenth-century religious texts.
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