Moses de León
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Moses de León, known in Hebrew as Moshe ben Shem-Tov, was a Spanish rabbi and Kabbalist who first publicized the Zohar. Modern scholars believe the Zohar is his own work, despite his claim to have cop
Statue of Moses in Guadalajara, Spain (Luis Sanguino)
Four senses of Scripture
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In Christianity, the four senses of Scripture is a four-level method of interpreting the Bible. The four senses are literal, allegorical, moral and anagogical. The method was developed in Late Antiqui
Moses de León
…in 1305 while returning to his home. Moses de León was the first to advance the Kabbalistic theory of Biblical exegesis, as a Jewish adaptation of the fourfold method of Biblical exegesis from medieval Christianity. The term, sometimes also rendered PaRDeS, means "orchard" when taken literally, but is used in this…
Noah and the "baptismal flood" of the Old Testament (top panel) is "typologically linked" with (it prefigures) the baptism of Jesus in the New Testament (bottom panel).
Christ rises from the tomb, alongside Jonah spit onto the beach, a typological allegory. From a 15th-century Biblia pauperum.