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Keywords
Cabalá
Masonería
Arte
Iconografía
Relaciones Judeo-Cristianas
David Rosenberg
Kabbalah
Freemasonry
Art
Iconography
Jewish-Christian Relations
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Abstract
This article addresses a highly detailed and complex lithograph with the title Aperçu de l’Origine du Culte Hébraïque (“An Overview of the Origin of Hebrew Worship”), which was designed and executed in Paris in 1841 by a Hungarian rabbi, David Rosenberg. It explains the Kabbalistic meaning of the lithograph and its application to Freemasonry. Rosenberg’s endeavour will be analysed within the wider Masonic historical context. The probable reasons behind the reinterpretation of the lithograph from a Judaic into a Masonic work will be explored, thus also including Rosenberg’s possible personal motives.
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