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V. 26 N. 1 (2018)

Images of the Jews

The Role of the Jew in Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont’s Adumbratio kabbalae christianae

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34839/wpt.2018.26.1.33-40  [Google Scholar]
Pubblicato: 2019-01-07

Abstract

While the use of the Jews as scapegoats is well documented, less noted is how they have provided a pretext for exploring and writing about heterodoxical ideas that otherwise might cause problems for the author. A case in point is the Adumbratio kabbalae christianae, by seventeenth-century esoteric thinker Franciscus Mercusius van Helmont. Although ostensibly designed to convert the Jews, a close examination reveals that the text was intended to inform like-minded Christians about an esoteric mode of thought that, at the time, was repudiated by Church authorities.

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