Actieprijs Messias Puer. Christian Knorr von Rosenroth’s Lost Exegesis of Kabbalistic Christianity. Editio princeps plena with Translation and Introduction (Aries Book Series, Text and Studies in Western Esotericim, ARBS Volume 28) – Vileno, Anna M.|Wilkinson, Robert J.

“Previously considered irretrievably lost, the discovery of the only manuscript of the Messias Puer composed by Knorr von Rosenroth, the leading exponent of Christian Kabbalah in the seventeenth century, gives us an important insight into the evolution of his thought and specific vision of the relations between Jews and Christians. Moreover, the subtle intertwining of both Kabbalah and the emerging biblical criticism at work in this partial commentary on the New Testament Gospels sheds new light on the larg…