Tetragrammaton
Subtitle: Western Christians and the Hebrew name of God : from the beginnings to the seventeenth century
By: by Robert J. Wilkinson
Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions -- Volume 179; Studies in the history of Christian traditions -- v. 179.
Publisher: Brill; BRILL; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 587
ISBN-13: 9789004284623; 9789004288171
Subjects: Name; Christentum; Tetragrammaton; Gottesname; Tetragramm; Rezeption; God (Christianity); History of doctrines; God (Judaism)
Description: The Christian Reception of the Hebrew name of God has not previously been described in such detail and over such an extended period. This work places that varied reception within the context of early Jewish and Christian texts; Patristic Studies; Jewish-Christian relationships; Mediaeval thought; the Renaissance and Reformation; the History of Printing; and the development of Christian Hebraism. The contribution of notions of the Tetragrammaton to orthodox doctrines and debates is exposed, as is the contribution its study made to non-orthodox imaginative constructs and theologies. Gnostic, Kabbalistic, Hermetic and magical texts are given equally detailed consideration. There emerge from this sustained and detailed examination several recurring themes concerning the difficulty of naming God, his being and his providence. (Publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. The eclipse of the name. The Tetragrammaton in Jewish pre-Christin biblical texts in Greek and Hebrew; title: The first Christians and the Tetragrammaton; title: The Tetragrammaton among the Orthodox in late antiquity; title: The Tetragrammaton among gnostics and magicians in late antiquity; title: The Tetragrammaton in Jewish Hebrew Mishnaic, Talmudic, Hekalot, and biblical texts in later antiquity and the early Middle Ages; title: Part 2. Times of ignorance. The Tetragrammaton in the Middle Ages; title: The Tetragrammaton in private devotion and magic in the Middle Ages; title: Part 3. The rediscovery of the name. The origins of printing, Hebrew printing, and the growth of Christian Hebraism; title: The early Christian Kabbalists and the Tetragrammaton; title: The Tetragrammaton in vernacular Bibles, popular print, and illustration; title: The Tetragrammaton and scholars at the time of the Protestant and Catholic Reformation; title: The Tetragrammaton in Renaissance magic and among the later Christian Kabbalists; title: The demystification of language and the triumph of philology.