Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, LIV+195 p., 12 b/w line art, 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503541983.
Ramon Llull completed the Ars breuis in 1308. This short but very popular work extant in over seventy manuscripts was a concise and much more easily digestible version of the much longer Ars generalis ultima, the final redaction of Llull's Art. In Senigallia in the March of Ancona in July or August 1474, the Ars breuis was translated into Hebrew and then copied twice over the next couple of years. The colophon of the extant copy shows that these Jewish students of the Ars breuis used the work to attain unio mystica. This seems to be a unique example of a Christian work, described as being 'short in quantity but great in quality', knowingly being used by Jews for mystical purposes. The translator and copyists seem to have read and understood Llull's work through the prism of Abulafian Kabbalah. Abraham Abulafia (d. ca. 1291), a contemporary of Llull's, wrote numerous works dealing with the divine names and the combination of letters. He believed that the whole Torah was the names of God, and by manipulating the letters of the Hebrew alphabet, one could have knowledge of the divine and created world. This Jewish circle seemed to have understood the letters of the Lullian alphabet and the various combinations and compartments of the Ars breuis as leading to true mystical cognition. This volume presents the Hebrew edition together with the original Latin (based on a slightly revised edition of ROL 12 / CC CM 38) along with an English translation and detailed notes which show how the Jewish translator and copyists understood and used this work. Languages: Hebrew, Latin, English.
Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions - Daniele Hervieu-Léger ed. - Constant Hames - Francis Messner - Jean-Marie Woehrling - Silvio Ferrari - Alexander Hollerbach - Jean-Luc Hiebel - Michael Lowy - Guy G. Stroumsa - Michel Maslowski - Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz
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(1998)
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS , Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1998 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur blanche et bleue grand In-8 1 vol. - 175 pages
1ere édition Contents, Chapitres : Constant Hames : Le sacrifice animal au regard des textes islamiques canoniques - 1. La neutralité de l'Etat dans les pays de l'Union Européenne : Francis Messner : La neuturalité de l'Etat dans les pays de l'Union Européenne - Jean-Marie Woehrling : Réflexions sur le principe de la neutralité de l'Etat en matière religieuse et sa mise en oeuvre en droit français - Silvio Ferrari : Le principe de neutralité en Italie - Alexander Hollerbach : Quelques remarques sur la neutralité de l'Etat en matière religieuse en RFA (Allemagne) - 2. Note critique : Jean-Luc Hiebel : Les relations Eglises-Etat - 3. Les intellectuels et la religion en Europe Centrale : Michael Lowy : La religion de la liberté chez Franz Kafka, contre l'autorité des gardiens de la loi - Guy G. Stroumsa : Buber as an Historian of Religion, Presence, not Gnosis - Michel Maslowski : Entre l'Orient et l'Occident, la religiosité romantique en Pologne - Peter-Ulrich Merz-Benz : Contre la sagesse résignée, Ernst Troeltsch et le dépassement de la crise du monde moderne à partir de la notion d'émanatisme critique tres legeres traces de pliures sur les plats de la couverture, sinon tres bon état, intérieur frais et propre