Alchemy of the Word: Cabala of the Renaissance

by Philip Beitchman

Philip Beitchman , author of I Am a Process With No Subject , has also translated books by Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio from French to English.

364 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1998

Reviews

[Jamie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Written in what seemed, to me at least, a bit of a scatter-gun or stream of consciousness kind of way, it was difficult to work out whether there was any kind of consistent thesis here. I noticed several factual errors and misquotes, as well as quite frequent misspelled names, which left me doubting how far I could rely on this book to teach me about less familiar areas. At times the prose style could be quite clumsy. But on the positive side, the annotated bibliography (which for unknown reasons was in the middle of the book) would probably be very useful to scholars studying this area, if quite dull for the non-specialist. Although now quite old, Blau’s ‘The Christian Interpretation of Cabala in the Renaissance’ is better IMHO.