Originally published in Jewish Quarterly 38:1 (141) (1991), p. 69. A CHRISTIAN KABBALIST Louis Jacobs PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA’S ENCOUNTER WITH JEWISH MYSTICISM by Chaim Wirszubski. Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 1989. The Jewish mystical system known as the Kabbalah, precisely because of its esoteric nature and its claim to a gnosis reaching back to the…
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