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All the names of the Lord : lists, mysticism, and magic /

The Christian God has at once all names and no name. To explore this conflict, the author here examines two lists of God's names - one from 'The Divine Names', the classic treaty by Pseudo-Dionysus, and the other from 'The 72 Names of the Lord' an amulet whose history binds...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Izmirlieva, Valentina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Colección:Studies of the Harriman Institute.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The claim of theology : "nameless and of every name"
  • The divine names and Dionysius the areopagite
  • Myth and mystification
  • The exegetes
  • The translators
  • Disputed authorship and indisputable authority
  • Back to the sources
  • The Bible and the name
  • The trouble with logos
  • The two roads, or the nature of divine names
  • The synthesis of Dionysius
  • The Dionysian vision
  • The theological project
  • United differentiations
  • A hierarchy of names
  • Nameless and of every name
  • Theory and practice
  • Biblical exegesis
  • The proper name of God is a list
  • Listing the names of God
  • A magical alternative : the 72 names of God
  • How many are the names of God?
  • The number of God's names
  • The larger context
  • The synonymy of 72 and 70
  • A body of 72 parts and the 72 diseases
  • An apostle for every nation
  • The division of the languages at Babel
  • The Septuagint
  • The 72 Disciples of Christ
  • The ideal quorum
  • The peculiar codex Jerusalem 22
  • The facts
  • A kabbalistic hypothesis
  • The Balkan context
  • Three possible kabbalistic indices
  • The emphasis on 72
  • Kabbalah and the world of 72 parts
  • Christian culture and the 72 names
  • Kabbalah in Christian garb
  • The Christian amulet east and west
  • Printing and the career of the slavonic text
  • The miscellany for travelers and the remaking of the text
  • The spectacular aftermath
  • Building textual affinities
  • Commercial success
  • The Abagar of Philip Stanislavov.