On the Art of the Kabbalah (De Arte Cabalistica), English translation

Johann Reuchlin's De Arte Cabalistica, in Martin and Sarah Goodman's English translation, is a primary Renaissance text, a 1517 Christian Hebraist's dialogue presenting Jewish Kabbalah as a source of confirming evidence for Christian theology, part of the broader Christian Kabbalah movement Reuchlin helped found. Its authority is as a foundational document of that specific intellectual movement, valuable for understanding how Renaissance Christian scholars engaged, and reshaped, Jewish mystical texts for their own theological purposes. It is not a neutral or insider account of Kabbalah as Jewish tradition understands it, and it should be read as evidence of Christian reception and reinterpretation of Kabbalistic ideas rather than as a reliable guide to Kabbalah's meaning within Jewish religious thought itself.