Base de données realisée dans le cadre du projet « The Names of God and of Christ in the Syncret... more Base de données realisée dans le cadre du projet « The Names of God and of Christ in the Syncretic Renaissance : Mystical, Magical and Visual Words in Christian Kabbalah », subventionné par le programme-cadre de l’UE pour la recherche et l’innovation Horizon 2020 (bourse de recherche individuelle Marie Sklodowska-Curie – CABBALA – n. 658793 – H2020-MSCA-IF-2014-EF). Collaborations : Robert J. Wilkinson (University of the West of England), Pavlos Vasileiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Tiziano Anzuini (INALCO)
Cet article prend en considération les théories hétérogènes de la Cabbale chrétienne sur les diff... more Cet article prend en considération les théories hétérogènes de la Cabbale chrétienne sur les différents noms de Dieu et de Jésus dans le contexte de la pensée syncrétique de la Renaissance. En particulier, on prendra en examen les textes de Niccolò Camerario (1469–1532). Son épitre sur le nom de Jésus et la Nova Expositio super Evangelio peuvent être considérées comme des exemples de la lecture chrétienne du Tétragramme et d'une interprétation christologique des doctrines cabbalistiques juives. Abstract The article examines the theories by the early Christian Kabbalists about the different names of God and of Jesus in the context of the Renaissance syncretistic thought. The study focused especially on the writings of Niccolò Camerario (1469–1532). His letter on the name of Jesus and the Nova Expositio super Evangelio are some examples of a Christian reading of the Tetragrammaton as expression of new Christological interpretations to Jewish Kabbalistic doctrines.
Base de données realisée dans le cadre du projet « The Names of God and of Christ in the Syncret... more Base de données realisée dans le cadre du projet « The Names of God and of Christ in the Syncretic Renaissance : Mystical, Magical and Visual Words in Christian Kabbalah », subventionné par le programme-cadre de l’UE pour la recherche et l’innovation Horizon 2020 (bourse de recherche individuelle Marie Sklodowska-Curie – CABBALA – n. 658793 – H2020-MSCA-IF-2014-EF). Collaborations : Robert J. Wilkinson (University of the West of England), Pavlos Vasileiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Tiziano Anzuini (INALCO)
Cet article prend en considération les théories hétérogènes de la Cabbale chrétienne sur les diff... more Cet article prend en considération les théories hétérogènes de la Cabbale chrétienne sur les différents noms de Dieu et de Jésus dans le contexte de la pensée syncrétique de la Renaissance. En particulier, on prendra en examen les textes de Niccolò Camerario (1469–1532). Son épitre sur le nom de Jésus et la Nova Expositio super Evangelio peuvent être considérées comme des exemples de la lecture chrétienne du Tétragramme et d'une interprétation christologique des doctrines cabbalistiques juives. Abstract The article examines the theories by the early Christian Kabbalists about the different names of God and of Jesus in the context of the Renaissance syncretistic thought. The study focused especially on the writings of Niccolò Camerario (1469–1532). His letter on the name of Jesus and the Nova Expositio super Evangelio are some examples of a Christian reading of the Tetragrammaton as expression of new Christological interpretations to Jewish Kabbalistic doctrines.
14-15 JUNE 2022, MAIMONIDES CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
WORKSHOP - Beyond Doubt: Prophetic Langu... more 14-15 JUNE 2022, MAIMONIDES CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
WORKSHOP - Beyond Doubt: Prophetic Language and Esoteric Knowledge in Renaissance Kabbalah
Organised by Flavia Buzzetta and Fabrizio Lelli
Abstract
In Yoḥanan Alemanno’s hierarchical view of the human disciplines, philosophical speculation guides the individual’s path towards immortality only in its first stages and must be complemented by additional meditative and mystical techniques. This paper focuses on the breaking moments in the transition between philosophical and kabbalistic thinking, rather than their coexistence. My aim is to pinpoint the exact moments in the individual’s path towards perfection where philosophical means become insufficient and, in Alemanno’s view, one must rely on a different set of theoretical and practical tools. This paper will focus on psychology and ethics as two areas where philosophy is overruled at a specific stage. In particular, we will look at the role of the faculty of imagination and its relationship with mystical practices and the role of philosophical ethics with respect to divine commandments.
At the end of the fifteenth century, a horrified preacher from Santa Maria Novella claimed that G... more At the end of the fifteenth century, a horrified preacher from Santa Maria Novella claimed that Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and Marsilio Ficino had been trying to achieve mystical union with God, perform miracles, and prophesise using magic and Kabbalah. His fears were directed towards unknown and sulphurous forms of knowledge that were part of an ancient divine wisdom and manifestations of a unique and universal truth. Did they constitute stages along a path leading to a knowledge that was certain and free from doubt for the humanists of the time? Of what does this "knowledge beyond doubt" mainly consist? This workshop aims to answer these questions by examining this knowledge in Jewish and Christian thought in the early modern period. This is set against the backdrop of the importance accorded by various Renaissance thinkers to "esoteric" Kabbalistic and prophetic wisdom, which, by activating the highest human cognitive faculties, can penetrate the divine mysteries and grasp the most hidden aspects of the Truth and its unquestionable and incontrovertible manifestations. Particular attention will be paid to prophecy and Kabbalah as "esoteric knowledges" capable of interpreting the most hidden, mysterious, and occult dimension of nature and the Godhead.
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Collaborations : Robert J. Wilkinson (University of the West of England), Pavlos Vasileiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Tiziano Anzuini (INALCO)
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Collaborations : Robert J. Wilkinson (University of the West of England), Pavlos Vasileiadis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Tiziano Anzuini (INALCO)
WORKSHOP - Beyond Doubt: Prophetic Language and Esoteric Knowledge in Renaissance Kabbalah
Organised by Flavia Buzzetta and Fabrizio Lelli
Abstract
In Yoḥanan Alemanno’s hierarchical view of the human disciplines, philosophical speculation guides the individual’s path towards immortality only in its first stages and must be complemented by additional meditative and mystical techniques. This paper focuses on the breaking moments in the transition between philosophical and kabbalistic thinking, rather than their coexistence. My aim is to pinpoint the exact moments in the individual’s path towards perfection where philosophical means become insufficient and, in Alemanno’s view, one must rely on a different set of theoretical and practical tools. This paper will focus on psychology and ethics as two areas where philosophy is overruled at a specific stage. In particular, we will look at the role of the faculty of imagination and its relationship with mystical practices and the role of philosophical ethics with respect to divine commandments.