Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 36)

‎Contents
‎Acknowledgments
‎Figures
‎Tables
‎Abbreviations and Transliteration
‎Chapter 1. Introduction
	‎1. Widmanstetter’s Life and Library
	‎2. Kabbalah and Its Christian Interpreters
	‎3. Jewish Books in Christian Hands
	‎4. The Book as a Material Object
‎Chapter 2. Christian Hebraist Book Collecting in the Era of Expulsions
	‎1. Chronology of Acquisition
	‎2. Traces of Late Medieval Jewish Libraries
		‎2.1. Exiled Libraries
		‎2.2. Italian Jewish Libraries
		‎2.3. Spanish-Jewish Libraries
	‎3. Books Acquired from Private Libraries
		‎3.1. Books from Jewish Contacts
		‎3.2. Books from Christian Libraries
	‎4. Booksellers and Book Agents
		‎4.1. Jewish Booksellers
		‎4.2. Christian Booksellers and Book Agents
	‎5. The Habsburg Ambassadors in Constantinople
		‎5.1. Antun Vrančić
		‎5.2. Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq
	‎6. Conclusion
‎Chapter 3. Coveted Kabbalah: Widmanstetter’s Collaboration with Jewish and Convert Scribes
	‎1. The Availability of Kabbalistic Books
	‎2. Editing a New Recension of the Zohar: Francesco Parnas (1536–1537)
		‎2.1. Christian Hebraist Conceptions of the Zohar
		‎2.2. Egidio da Viterbo’s Zohar Manuscript
		‎2.3. Francesco Parnas as an Editor and a Scribe
		‎2.4. Widmanstetter’s Extended Zohar Manuscript
	‎3. Compiling Kabbalistic Anthologies: Paulus Aemilius (1537–1538)
		‎3.1. Paulus Aemilius as a Scribe
		‎3.2. Compilations from Egidio da Viterbo’s Library
		‎3.3. Copying the Kabbalistic Books of the Pope’s Son
	‎4. Receiving the Manuscript of an Expert Scribe: Hayyim Gatigno (1553)
		‎4.1. Hayyim Gatigno as a Scribe
		‎4.2. Hayyim Gatigno’s Copy of Sefer ha-Peliyah
	‎5. Losing Control: Moses Gad ben Tobiah (1555)
	‎6. Conclusion
‎Chapter 4. Barrels of Books: The Care of a Christian Hebraist Library
	‎1. Protecting and Presenting: The Materiality of Christian Hebraist Books
		‎1.1. Chests and Barrels as Library Furniture
		‎1.2. Bindings and Their Origins
		‎1.3. Rebound Books and One-Volume Libraries
	‎2. Writing the History of Jewish Books: Title Inscriptions
		‎2.1. Studying Jewish Texts without Bibliographies
		‎2.2. Christian Perspectives on Jewish Book History
		‎2.3. The Beginnings of Christian Hebraist Bibliography
	‎3. Sorting Jewish Books into Christian Libraries
		‎3.1. Descriptions of Widmanstetter’s Catalog
		‎3.2. Early Modern Cataloging Theory
		‎3.3. Sixteenth-Century Christian Hebraist Catalogs
		‎3.4. Jewish Subject Classification
	‎4. Conclusion
‎Chapter 5. Exceeding Piety: Widmanstetter’s Hebraitas
	‎1. Writing and Translating Hebrew
		‎1.1. Widmanstetter’s Correspondence
		‎1.2. Widmanstetter’s Hebraist Commonplace Book
	‎2. Reading the Talmud
	‎3. Wider Perspectives on Hebrew Texts
		‎3.1. Hebraic Studies in the New Testament
		‎3.2. Hebrew as a Gateway to the Arabic Tradition
	‎4. Conclusion
‎Chapter 6. “Muhammad’s Jewish Heresies”: Reading the Quran through Kabbalistic Books
	‎1. Studying Arabic in Early Modern Europe
	‎2. Widmanstetter’s Polemic on the Quran
	‎3. Muhammad’s Alleged Jewish Sources
		‎3.1. Talmud
		‎3.2. Kabbalah
	‎4. Conclusion
‎Chapter 7. Revisiting Kabbalah: The Sefirotic Tree in the Syriac New Testament
	‎1. The Christian Elements of the Plate
		‎1.1. Christ’s Mystical Wounds
		‎1.2. St. John’s Divine Inspiration
	‎2. The Printing of the Syriac New Testament
	‎3. Guillaume Postel and Or Nerot ha-Menorah
	‎4. Widmanstetter and the Ten Sefirot
		‎4.1. Literary Traditions
		‎4.2. Pictorial Traditions
	‎5. Conclusion
‎Conclusion
	‎1. The Afterlife of the Library
	‎2. Confronting Kabbalah
‎Appendix A. Widmanstetter’s Correspondence
‎Appendix B. The Books of Bomberg’s 1543 Catalog in Widmanstetter’s Library
‎Appendix C. Widmanstetter’s Itinerary from 1539 to 1557
‎Appendix D. Catalog of Widmanstetter’s Hebraist Library
‎Index of Authors
‎Index of Titles
‎Index of Places
‎Index of Bindings
‎Index of Previous Owners
‎Index of Scribes
‎Bibliography
‎General index