The Poetic Transformation of Christian Cabbala: Gematria between Divination and Honorific Poetry in the German Lands of the Eighteenth Century
This article follows the development of a genre of eighteenth-century texts, explicitly self-designated as ‘cabbalistic’, initially intended for fortune telling by use of a number-alphabet. Such texts were found in Latin and German and eventually emerged from clandestinity into print, though initial...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Aries
Year: 2020, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-206 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Esotericism
/ Literature
/ Christian Kabbalah
/ History 1700-1800
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| IxTheo Classification: | AZ New religious movements CB Christian life; spirituality CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
German Vernacular
B paragrams B Christian Cabbala B Baroque B clandestinity |
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| Summary: | This article follows the development of a genre of eighteenth-century texts, explicitly self-designated as ‘cabbalistic’, initially intended for fortune telling by use of a number-alphabet. Such texts were found in Latin and German and eventually emerged from clandestinity into print, though initially they were often anonymous and with false places of printing. As these texts attracted the attention of those interested in promoting the German vernacular and demonstrating the poetic capacity of that language, they were increasingly identified as ‘paragrams’, lost much of their mantic purpose and increasingly became an inventive technique for the stimulation of the composition of honorific verse. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0593 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Aries
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700593-02002001 |