Flavius Mithridates
Flavius MithridatesArabic.[5]
Biography
About 1486 he lived at
cabbalistic literature.[8]
Modern scholarly reconsideration of this work have found it somewhat erratic and containing interpolations.
He also translated into Latin
Imbonatus
.
Identity
Some scholars have thought, but without sufficient reason, that Flavius is identical with the cabalist
Johanan Aleman ben Isaac[10]
a contemporary and associate of Pico della Mirandola, who taught him from the late 1480s.
Seidman notes Mithridates's "proliferation of identitites", listing the following:[11]
- Gugielmo Raimondo Moncada[12]
- Flavius Mithridates
- Siculus
- Romanus
- Chaldeus
- Samuel ben Nissim ibn Faraj
- YHWH (which Mithridates claimed based on kabbalistic gematria)
References
- Doukas, Recherches, pp. 46, 69, 72;
- Joseph Perles, in R. E. J. xii. 249;
- idem, Beiträge, pp. 178–196;
- Brüll's Jahrb. iii. 196;
- Siegmund Salfeld, Das Hohelied, p. 117;
- Moritz Steinschneider, in Monatsschrift, 1898, p. 262;
- idem, Hebr. Uebers. p. 492;
- Hermann Vogelstein and Paul Rieger, Geschichte der Juden in Rom, ii. 75.
Notes
- ^ Flavio Mitridate, Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada, Raimondo da Moncada, Raimondo Moncada, Raimundo Moncada, Raymond Moncada, Raimundus Mithridates Romanus, Flavius Wilhelmus Raimundus Mithridates, etc.
- Jewish Encyclopedia(article Flavius (Raimundus) Mithridates) his Jewish name is not known; but many modern works give it as Samuel ben Nissim Abulfaraj.
- ^ "Home". pico-kabbalah.eu.
- ^ http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/h-orient_to_rome/Orient_to_rome.html : he is there called a ‘clever charlatan’.
- Qur'an for Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, who died in 1482.
- ^ The Jewish Encyclopedia says for Pope Sixtus IV; thirty-eight fragments in Vatican MSS. Nos. 189-191.
- ^ 3500 pages of manuscript
- ^ E.g. this PDF, p.49.
- Aegidius Romanus, and that Judah was only the translator of it.
- ^ 1435-1504, i.e. Yohanan Aliman, Yohanan Isaac ben Allemanno.
- ISBN 9780226745060
- ^ Richerche storiche su Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada ebreo convertito Siciliano, by Raffaele Starrabba; 1878.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Flavius (Raimundus) Mithridates". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
Bibliography
- Giulio Busi (ed.), with Simonetta M. Bondoni and Saverio Campanini, The Great Parchment: Flavius Mithridates’ Latin Translation, the Hebrew Text, and an English Version, "The Kabbalistic Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola" - 1, Nino Aragno Editore, Torino 2004.
- Saverio Campanini (ed.), The Book of Bahir. Flavius Mithridates' Latin Translation, the Hebrew Text, and an English Version, with a Foreword by G. Busi, "The Kabbalistic Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola" - 2, Nino Aragno Editore, Torino 2005.
- Saverio Campanini, Talmud, Philosophy, Kabbalah: A Passage from Pico della Mirandola’s Apologia and its Source, in M. Perani (ed.), The Words of a Wise Man’s Mouth are Gracious. Festschrift for Günter Stemberger on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, W. De Gruyter Verlag, Berlin – New York 2005, pp. 429–447.
- Mauro Perani (ed.), Gugliemo Raimondo Moncada alias Flavio Mitridate. Un ebreo converso siciliano. Atti del Convegno Internazionale Caltabellotta (Agrigento) 23-24 ottobre 2004, Officina di Studi Medievali, Palermo 2008.
- Michela Andreatta - Saverio Campanini, Bibliographia Mithridatica, in Mauro Perani (ed.), Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada alias Flavio Mitridate, Palermo 2008, pp. 241–257.
- Saverio Campanini, Latin into Hebrew (and Back): Flavius Mithridates and His Latin Translations From Judah Romano, in A. Fidora – H. J. Hames – Y. Schwartz (edd.), Latin into Hebrew. Texts and Studies, Volume Two: Texts in Contexts, Brill, Leiden – Boston 2013, pp. 161–193.
- Saverio Campanini, תפלה לעני / Oratio pauperis. A Kabbalistic Prayer attributed to Todros ha-Levi Abulafia in Mithridates’ Latin Translation, in «Iberia Judaica» 6 (2014), pp. 23–34.
- Saverio Campanini, Who Was Rabbi Mithridates? Following a Neglected Trail, in F. Buzzetta (ed.), Cabbala, Cahiers Accademia 11 (2018), pp. 9–22.
- Saverio Campanini, Four Short Kabbalistic Treatises, "The Kabbalistic Library of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola" 6, Fondazione Palazzo Bondoni Pastorio, Castiglione delle Stiviere 2019.