This paper tries to shed light on the value and limitations of the label ‘Christian Kabbalah’ for our knowledge of the historical phenomenon it describes. It works out how Christian scholars approached Kabbalah for a variety of reasons, be they instrumental, polemicizing or glorifying approaches, or for further motives. In addition, the article examines how the basic lines of the field of research around the Kabbalah in general were established and which impulses emanated from Gershom Scholem in particular. It concludes with an examination of Scholem’s religious philosophy with regard to his own research interest in the Kabbalah, which goes, in Scholem’s words, beyond historiography in some cases. Scholem described academic research on Kabbalah as ‘ironic’ and this irony affects his own ambivalent attitude towards the Christian Kabbalists of the Renaissance and the early modern epoch.

本文试图阐明“基督教卡巴拉”标签的价值和局限性，以帮助我们了解它所描述的历史现象。它阐述了基督教学者如何出于各种原因研究卡巴拉，无论是工具性的、争论性的还是颂扬性的方法，还是出于进一步的动机。此外，本文还探讨了围绕卡巴拉的研究领域的基本路线是如何建立的，以及具体来自格肖姆·肖勒姆的哪些推动力。最后，根据肖勒姆自己对卡巴拉的研究兴趣，对肖勒姆的宗教哲学进行了考察，用肖勒姆的话说，在某些情况下，这超出了史学的范围。肖勒姆将卡巴拉的学术研究描述为“讽刺”，这种讽刺影响了他对文艺复兴和现代早期基督教卡巴拉主义者的矛盾态度。