The Poetic Transformation of Christian Cabbala: Gematria between Divination and Honorific Poetry in the German Lands of the Eighteenth Century
This article follows the development of a genre of eighteenth-century texts, explicitly self-designated as ‘cabbalistic’, initially intended for fortune telling by use of a number-alphabet. Such texts were found in Latin and German and eventually emerged from clandestinity into print, though initial...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Aries
Year: 2020, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-206 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Esotericism
/ Literature
/ Christian Kabbalah
/ History 1700-1800
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RelBib Classification: | AZ New religious movements CB Christian life; spirituality CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history |
Further subjects: | B
German Vernacular
B paragrams B Christian Cabbala B Baroque B clandestinity |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |