Drawing on a detailed and sustained account of Christian reception of the Hebrew divine name until the Seventeenth Century this book illustrates its vitality in several periods as a stimulus to both orthodox and heterodox theologies and imaginative structures

Robert J. Wilkinson, Ph.D. (2004) in History, U.W.E. was before retirement Research Fellow at Wesley College and Visiting Fellow in Theology in Bristol. He is author of Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation and The Kabbalistic Scholars of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible. (both Brill 2007).