All the Names of the Lord: Lists, Mysticism, and Magic

Valentina Izmirlieva Examines Two Lists Of God's Names: One From The Divine Names, The Classic Treatise By Pseudo-dionysius, And The Other From The 72 Names Of The Lord, An Amulet Whose History Binds Together Kabbalah And Christianity, Jews And Slavs, Palestine, Provence, And The Balkans. Despite The Two Different Visions Of Order Represented By Each List, Izmirlieva Finds That Their Uses In Christian Practice Point To A Complementary Relationship Between The Existential Need For God's Protection And The Metaphysical Desire To Submit To His Infinite Majesty - A Compelling Claim Sure To Provoke Discussion Among Scholars In Many Fields.--book Jacket. The Claim Of Theology : Nameless And Of Every Name -- The Divine Names And Dionysius The Areopagite -- Myth And Mystification -- The Exegetes -- The Translators -- Disputed Authorship And Indisputable Authority -- Back To The Sources -- The Bible And The Name -- The Trouble With Logos -- The Two Roads, Or The Nature Of Divine Names -- The Synthesis Of Dionysius -- The Dionysian Vision -- The Theological Project -- United Differentiations -- A Hierarchy Of Names -- Nameless And Of Every Name -- Theory And Practice -- Biblical Exegesis -- The Proper Name Of God Is A List -- Listing The Names Of God -- A Magical Alternative : The 72 Names Of God -- How Many Are The Names Of God? -- The Number Of God's Names -- The Larger Context -- The Synonymy Of 72 And 70 -- A Body Of 72 Parts And The 72 Diseases -- An Apostle For Every Nation -- The Division Of The Languages At Babel -- The Septuagint -- The 72 Disciples Of Christ -- The Ideal Quorum -- The Peculiar Codex Jerusalem 22 -- The Facts -- A Kabbalistic Hypothesis -- The Balkan Context -- Three Possible Kabbalistic Indices -- The Emphasis On 72 -- Kabbalah And The World Of 72 Parts -- Christian Culture And The 72 Names -- Kabbalah In Christian Garb -- The Christian Amulet East And West -- Printing And The Career Of The Slavonic Text -- The Miscellany For Travelers And The Remaking Of The Text -- The Spectacular Aftermath -- Building Textual Affinities -- Commercial Success -- The Abagar Of Philip Stanislavov. Valentina Izmirlieva. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 207-224) And Index.