The Broken Tradition

The present article documents a series of errors discovered in letters of the Lusatian theosopher Jacob Böhme (1575–1624) dating from 1621 and 1623. These errors, some of which were present in the manuscript tradition, some of which were introduced in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century printed edit...

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1. VerfasserIn: Penman, Leigh T. I. 1979- (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2018
In: Aries
Jahr: 2018, Band: 18, Heft: 1, Seiten: 96-125
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Böhme, Jakob 1575-1624 / Kommentar / Textgeschichte
RelBib Classification:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
AZ Neue Religionen
weitere Schlagwörter:B Jacob Boehme scribal publication scholarly editions print culture theosophy prosopography
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Zusammenfassung:The present article documents a series of errors discovered in letters of the Lusatian theosopher Jacob Böhme (1575–1624) dating from 1621 and 1623. These errors, some of which were present in the manuscript tradition, some of which were introduced in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century printed editions, have influenced modern scholarly opinion on Böhme’s works concerning the doctrine of predestination, as well as the identity and influence of several members of his networks. This contribution aims to correct this troubling accumulation of errors by going ad fontes and re-examining the extant manuscript corpus, and uniting insights won through a thorough review of the transmission of the letters with extensive prosopographical research. This investigation highlights the need for a new edition of Böhme’s correspondence, as well as the potential textual unreliability of Theosophia Revelata (1730), the de facto standard edition of Böhme’s works.
ISSN:1570-0593
Enthält:In: Aries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700593-01801001