Messias Puer: Christian Knorr von Rosenroths Lost Exegesis of Kabbalistic Christianity

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Previously considered irretrievably lost, the discovery of the only manuscript of the Messias Puer composed by Knorr von Rosenroth, the leading exponent of Christian Kabbalah in the seventeenth century, gives us an important insight into the evolution of his thought and specific vision of the relations between Jews and Christians. Moreover, the subtle intertwining of both Kabbalah and the emerging biblical criticism at work in this partial commentary on the New Testament Gospels sheds new light on the largely unexplored role of Esotericism during the Modern Era in the construction of the future study of religion. This book includes a critical edition of the original manuscript and an annotated translation. Anna M. Vileno, Ph.D. (2014), Free University of Brussels (ULB), post-doctoral researcher for the FNRS, teaches History of Religions. She has published À l’ombre de la kabbale. Philologie et ésotérisme dans l’œuvre de Christian Knorr de Rosenroth (2016). Robert J. Wilkinson, Ph.D. (2004), University of the West of England, has published several papers and books on Early Modern Syriac Studies and Christian Kabbalah. His last book is Tetragrammaton Western Christians and the Hebrew Name of God (Brill 2015). ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Chapter 1. Introduction ‎1. Messias Puer ‎2. The Parallelismi Soharitici ‎3. The Evidence for the Excerpta Found in Messias Puer ‎4. Two Witnesses to the Text of Messias Puer ‎Chapter 2. The Manuscript ‎1. A Description of the Manuscript ‎2. Hebrew Pagination ‎3. The Absence of a Title Page in the Manuscript ‎4. Knorr’s Hand ‎5. The Syriac Paper Slips ‎6. From Manuscript to Print ‎7. The Red Crayon Markings ‎Chapter 3. Changes to the Manuscript of Messias Puer ‎1. The Exceptional Tolerance of Sulzbach ‎2. Self-Correction and Self-Censorship ‎3. Changes of Speaker ‎4. Charges of Judaising ‎Chapter 4. Biblical Texts in Messias Puer ‎1. The New Testament Text of Messias Puer: The Peshitta Text ‎2. Orientalism and Biblical Studies ‎Chapter 5. The Intra-textuality of Messias Puer: Knorr Citing Knorr ‎1. The Apocalypse Commentary (1670) and the Harmonia Evangeliorum (1672) ‎2. Kabbala Denudata ‎3. Adumbratio kabbalæ christianæ ‎4. The Question of Authorship ‎Chapter 6. Theological and Exegetical Innovation in Messias Puer ‎1. The Revolution of Souls ‎2. The Lurianic Narrative of the Shards, the Sparks and Jeshuah as Saviour ‎3. Messiah ‎4. A Jewish Messianic Kingdom ‎5. Mary and the Virgin Birth ‎6. Finding the Sefirot in the Text of the New Testament ‎Chapter 7. The Edition ‎1. The Principles of the Edition ‎2. Using the Apparatus ‎Text and Translation ‎Sectio I. Evangelium Sanctum Prædicationis Lucæ Evangelistæ, quod locutus est et prædicavit Græcè in Alexandria magna. Cap. I. ‎Sectio II. Evangelium Sanctum Præconium Jochanan Præconis, Quod protulit & prædicavit Græcè in Epheso. Cap. I. ‎Sectio III. Luc. I. ‎Sectio IV. Luc. I, v. 26–38 ‎Sectio V. Luc. 1, v. 39 ‎Sectio VI. Matthæi Cap. I. v. 1–25. Evangelium Sanctum Prædicationis Matthæi Apostoli. ‎Sectio VII. De Nativitate & Circumsione Johannis, & Restituto Zacharia, ê Luca 1, v. 57–80. ‎Sectio VIII. De Nativitate, Circumcisione & Oblatione Christi. ê Luc. II, 1–39. ‎Sectio IX. De Adventu Magorum & Fuga Christi: ex Matth. 2. p. t. ‎Sectio X. De Sapientia Jesu Duodecennis in Templo Demonstrata è Luc. 2, v. 40–52. ‎Bibliography ‎Index of Terms and Nouns ‎Index of Biblical References