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Year:
2018
Catalog number :
45-005858
ISBN:
978-965-7763-13-1
Pages:
184
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Ta’am HaTe’amim

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Synopsis

Ta’am HaTe’amim is a messianic treatise in the Hebrew language composed by the Catholic French orientalist and mystic Guillaume Postel (1510-1581). Ta’am HaTe’amim is a relatively unknown Renaissance document, which sheds light on unique intellectual and political stands prevalent among sixteenth-century Catholic reformators. Throughout the treatise, Postel refers to several famous historical issues, depicting them through his own particular perspective, which was based upon a blend of Joachite millenarism, French patriotism and Jewish Kabbalah. In addition, Ta’am HaTe’amim is a rare example of Hebrew writing by an Early Modern Christian Scholar, and it is characterized by remarkable linguistic traits expressing Postel’s theological concepts regarding languages in general and Hebrew in particular.

Reviews
"Recommended for libraries holding Christian polemical literature, the history of Kabbalah and messianism, and Christian Jewish relations in the time of the Renaissance and rise of the Reformation." - Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, David B. Levy, March 2019