Download or read book Gender, Kabbalah and the Reformation: The Mystical Theology of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581) written by Yvonne Petry and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the thought of Guillaume Postel (1510-1581), a French religious thinker who relied on Jewish Kabbalah and its mystical understanding of gender to argue that a female messiah had arrived who would heal the political and religious conflicts of sixteenth-century Europe.