Covert Jewish Sources of Christian Kabbalah: the Case of Guillaume Postel and ʿIyyun Traditions

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Medieval Encounters Pub Date : 2020-05-04 DOI:10.1163/15700674-12340058

J. Weiss

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Abstract

The article focuses on Guillaume Postel’s Latin Zohar Commentary (1553), with the aim of uncovering a hitherto unknown influence of the medieval ʿIyyun Corpus on Postel’s Kabbalistic thought. Following a prefatory methodological exposition it is demonstrated that in addition to the more common Kabbalistic doctrines, such as those of the Zohar and other central theosophical-Kabbalistic treatises, Postel was also influenced by a different trend of Kabbalah, namely, the anonymous thirteenth-century mystical corpus originating in Languedoc, designated in scholarship as the ʿIyyun Writings. A reliable analysis of Kabbalistic Christian writings requires acquaintance with the writers’ sources, especially given the extent and divergence of medieval Kabbalistic literature. Therefore, we cannot make do with locating overt citations or references to known Kabbalistic treatises found in these writings, but also aim at uncovering covert Kabbalistic traditions which influenced them, as in the case of Postel and the ʿIyyun Corpus.

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基督教卡巴拉的犹太秘密来源：纪尧姆·波斯特尔和伊云传统案例

本文着重于纪尧姆·波斯特尔的《拉丁光辉评论》(1553)，旨在揭示中世纪的伊云语料库对波斯特尔卡巴拉思想迄今为止未知的影响。在序言式的方法论阐述之后，它证明了，除了更常见的卡巴拉教义，如《光辉之书》和其他中心的神智学-卡巴拉论文，波斯特尔还受到卡巴拉不同趋势的影响，即起源于朗格多克的匿名十三世纪神秘语料，在学术上被指定为伊云著作。对卡巴拉基督教著作的可靠分析需要熟悉作者的来源，特别是考虑到中世纪卡巴拉文学的范围和分歧。因此，我们不能在这些著作中找到对已知卡巴拉论文的公开引用或参考，而是要以揭示影响它们的隐秘卡巴拉传统为目标，就像Postel和伊云语料库一样。

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