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Article: Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament.(Book review)
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Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation: The First Printing of the Syriac New Testament. By Robert J. Wilkinson. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 137. Leiden: Brill, 2007. xvi + 225 pp. $129.00 cloth.
Robert Wilkinson, currently a research fellow at Wesley College in Bristol, U.K., completed his Ph.D. in history at the University of the West of England in 2004 after reading Oriental Studies at Cambridge. The present work and its companion volume, Kabbalistic Scholars of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Leiden: Brill, 2007), flow directly from work on his dissertation, "Origins of Syriac Studies in the Sixteenth Century." On one ...