Christian Knorr von Rosenroth’s Anticipation of the Consolation of Israel: His Latin Translation of Isaac Abarbanel’s “Introduction to the Prophet Isaiah” and Its Possible Place within His Work

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A previously unexamined manuscript of the seventeenth-century German Christian Kabbalist, Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, is reconstructed and identified as a Latin translation of Isaac Abrabanel's Hebrew Introduction to the prophet Isaiah. It provides surprising supportive evidence for his expectation of a temporal Jewish messianic kingdom in the Holy Land, now known also to be characteristic of his previously lost work Messias Puer. Von Rosenroth's anticipation of this future kingdom sets him apart from more usual supersessionist Christian views of Israel's future and illuminates the positive approach to Jewish settlement found in contemporary Sulzbach in which he was also involved.

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