Sephirotic Christ - Liber sacrosancti evangelii
Summary
Plate found at the Book of John in an edition of a Syriac New Testament (Liber Sacrosancti Evangelii De Jesu Christo Domino & Deo Nostro), Ed: Johann Albrecht Widmanstädt. Vienna: Michael Zimmermann, 1555. It depicts Christ and Kabbalistic symbolism, with each part of his body connected to a Sephirah in a Tree of Life (according to Wilkinson, Robert J. (2007). Orientalism, Aramaic, and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament (em inglês). Leiden; Boston: BRILL)
Date
1555
Source
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Copyright info
public domain