Monday, April 11, 2005
SEFIR YETSIRAH TIMELINE
More information on Rosicrucianism seems to be coming to the web. I've just found this timelinethat is interesting if you're drawn this stuff.
The following entry seems to associate the Kabbalah with the Languedoc, the seat of the Albigensian Heresy:
"Sefer Yetzirah" recension (Gruen=B) copied in 1531. Early 13th century text, originating with the early Kabbalists of Languedoc, indicating ties between this group and the Hasidim of the Rhineland and northern France, write about Jeremiah and his son Ben Sira in a pseudo-epigraphon attributed to the Tannaite Judah ben Bathyra. (MS Halberstam, 444 (in Jewish Theological Seminary NY). This, or a copy of it, is the source for J. Reuchlin's Latin translation in 1603.
