Messias Puer: Christian Knorr Von Rosenroth's Lost Exegesis of Kabbalistic Christianity - Editio Princeps Plena with Translation and Introduction

The Messias puer is the recovered last work of Knorr von Rosenroth, the most prolific Christian Kabbalist in the sSeventeenth Ccentury. After introducing Knorr's life and work, the book provides a critical edition of the manuscript and an annotated translation.

About the author

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'oeuvre 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).

Product details

• Authors: Anna M Vileno, Anna M. Vileno, Robert J Wilkinson, Robert J. Wilkinson
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2020
• EAN: 9789004426481
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42648-1
• No. of pages: 630
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 980 g
• Series: Aries Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works