[26] Vide Life of John Reuchlin, p, 108. [↑]
[27] The בחינת הדת was first published in a collection of diverse Treatises, in Basle, 1629–31; and then in Vienna, 1833, with an elaborate philosophical commentary by T. S. Reggio. The arguments against the Sohar are in this edition, p. 43. [↑]
[28] For the other works of Cordovero, both published and unpublished, we must refer to Fürst, Bibliotheca Judaica, vol. i, p. 187, &c.; and Steinschneider, Catalogus Libr. Hebr. in Bibliotheca Bodleiana, col. 1793, &c. [↑]
[29] Pardes Rimmonim = The Garden of Pomegranates, 65 a. [↑]
[30] For a description of the component parts of the ספר עץ החיים as well as for an account of the sundry editions of the several parts, published at different times, we must refer to Fürst, Bibliotheca Judaica, vol. iii, pp. 479–481. [↑]
[31] An analysis of the Sohar, as well as a description of the different editions of it, are given in the second part of this Essay, p. 160, &c. [↑]
[32] Comp. his Resp., ed. Vienna, 1860, p. 24, &c., פסק נגד הרבנים אשר בקשו לעכב הדפסת הזוהר מטעם גזרות המלכות על שריפה התלמוד; and again, ibid. p. 26, עוד יש מהם שהוסיפו סרה ואמרו כי העיון בזוהר יביא למינות ולפיכך טעון גניזה או שריפה לבער הקדש. [↑]
[33] This Treatise is published in the collection entitled טעם זקנים by Eliezar Ashkanazi, Frankfort-on-the-Maine, 1854. [↑]
[34] The ארי נוהם was published by Dr. Julius Fürst, Leipzig, 1840. Leo de Modena’s relation to the Kabbalah, the Talmud and Christianity is shown in an elaborate Introduction by Geiger in the מאמר מגן וצנה Berlin, 1856. See also the article Leo de Modena, in Alexander’s edition of Kitto’s Cyclopædia of Biblical Literature, vol. ii, p. 811. [↑]
[35] This Epistle, together with a German translation and learned notes, has been published by Geiger in his collection of sundry treatises, entitled Melo Chofnajim. Berlin, 1840. [↑]