The earliest cabalist was Asariel, whose Commentary on the Doctrine of tke Sephiroth (nil'^pO ^nijy tt^si^lD), in questions and answers, has been published (War- saw, 1798; Berl. 1850); also his Commentary on tke Song ofSonge (Altona, 1764), usually, ascribed to his pupO Nadimanides or Ramhan (q. v.).
Among the most important cabalists we find Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman, author €i the Booika of Faith and Hope (linan!) na^taM) ; R. Jose, of Castile, author of miK -^-n^lS iDoora of Light)', R. Moses, of Cordova, D'^J'ia'^ 05'^D {Garden of Pomegranatea) ; R. Isaac Loria, D'^^^li^m ^|^ (Book of the Wandermga of SouU) ; rI Cha^ Vital, 0"«^n V? (Tree ofUfe) ; R. NastaU Ben Jacob Elchanan, ?;|an pW {Valley of the King); R. Abraham Cohen, of Herrera (vulg. Iriva), 0*^?^^ *^T^ {Door of Heaven). Some of these works (translated into Latin) are to be found whole or in thdr principal parts in the Kahbala De* nudata of Chr. Knorr, of Rosenroth (Sulsb. 1677, 8 vols. 4to), with all kinds of exegetical apparatus, and some texts from the Zohar, The cabalistic literature is fully noticed in Bartolocd's Bibliotheca Magna Babbin' ica and in Wolffs Bibliotheca Hebraa, tom. ii and iv, though not Ih the correct order and construction ; see also P. Beer, Geachichte der Lehren aUer Seeten der Ju- den, ynd der CMala (Brfinn, 1822, 2 vols. 8vo) ; Senet, De Cahbala Jvdasonm (Rest. 1702) ; Sennert, De Cab- bala (Wittenb. 1655) ; and especially the copious list of expositions upon the worlu of Simon b^-Jochai, the reputed (bunder of Cabalism, given by FOrst, Bib- liotheca Judcrica, iii, 829 sq. We may specify the fol- lowing: Znnz, Gottead, Vortrdge der Juden (Berlin,
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1882), p. 402 sq. ; Landftaer, in the LUercOwhlaU det Orienti, vol. vii (1846); viii, 812 sq. ; Joel, JUliffiotu- philoi(i>hie det Sokar (Lps. 1849) ; JeUinek, Motet ften- Sehem-Job de Letm (Lpz. 1851); BeHr&ge tar Geteh. der Kabbala (Lpz. 1852) ; Autwahl Kabbalitcher Myttik (Lpz. 1858); And PhUoKphieimd Kabbalah (Lpt,18M); Steinscbneider, Jewith Literature (Lend. 1857), p. 104- 115, 299-809; Munk, Milanget de PkthtopMe Jmve et Arabe (Par. 1859), p. 190 eq. ; and especially the mas- terly analysis of the Zokar by Ignaz Stem, Ben-Cka- ncmjoj i-v; the ladd treatise of Gr&tz, Getch, der Ju^ deny yU, 442-459 ; and the able review of it by L5w, Ben-Chanai^ v, p. 825 sq. (also Lpz. 1868, p. 78-85). Ginsburg has lately published a compendious but co- pious and clear work entitled The Kaiiaiak, etc. (Lend. 1865), in which, however, he controverts the tradition- al view of the authorship by rabbis Akiba and Ben-Jo- chai, and assigns it an ori«rin prior to the Zohar, which he attributes to Moses of Leon ; considering this rath- er as the offspring than the parent of Cabalism.
CabasilaB, Nioolas, archbishop of Thessalonica in 1854, a firm supporter of the rights and independence of the Greeks ag&inst the Roman Church. In the Hesychastic controversy he took part with the monks of Mount Athos against Barlaam (q. v.). He. wrote several works, among which are, 1. Expotition of the Greek Liturgy (Greek), translated into Latin by Her- vet, and given in the BibUdheca PcUrwn under the title Compendiota uUerpretatio in Divmum Officiumi and, 2. Utpii r^ iv Xpumji ^w^c* etc.. Life of Jetut Chritt (Ingoldst. 1 604 ; a bad Latin version). This book is of value as illustrating the mystical tendency among the Byzantine writers.' See Cave, ffitL Lit, anno 1850 ; Stud. If. Krit. 1848, p. 724 ; Gasz, Die Mydik d, N, Ka- hatUat, etc. CGreifsw. 1849); Walch, Bibliotheca The- ologiea, i, 640; ii, 570.
Cabasilas, Nilos, uncle of the preceding, a Greek theologian, and archbishop of Thessalonica in the first half of the 14th century. He wrote Ilipt ruv alrt&v rriQ iKKkfiaiaoTiKfjQ duttrraunut^f first printed at London (n. d.), afterward, Greek and Latin, at Basel (1544) ; again at Frankfort (1555), and at Hainault (1608). In it he shows that the arbitrary claims of the papacy were the true cause of the schism between the East and West. He wrote also Uipl r^c opX^C tov ncnra (Francfort, 1555, 8vo; Hanover, 1608, with the works of Barlaam). Dupin says that these writings are *' AiU of learning.** The book on the papal supremacy was translated into English by Gressop (London, 1560, 8vo). Cabasilas died in 1850. — ^Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Genirak^ viii, 15 ; Cave, Hitt, LU.^ Wharton*s Appendix ; Du- pin, Ecdet, Writerty cent. xiv.
Cabassut (Cab€ututim)y Jban, an eminent Roman canonist, was bom at Aix, in Provence, 1604 or 1605, entered the congregation of the Oratory 1626, and died at Aix, aged eighty-one. Sept 25, 1685. At Rome he was regarded as an oracle in every thing relating to the canon law and casuistry, and a good Oriental scholar. He wrote Jurit Canonici theoria et praxit (4to, 1696, 1698, and by Gibert, with notes^ etc., 1788) ; also ffittoriarwn, ConcUiorum et Canonum invicem coU latorum veterumque Eccletiee rituum, ab ipiit EQcktia tn- cunabulit ad nottra utque iempora^ notitia tccletiattica (best ed. Lugd. 1685, fol. ; again, Lyons, 1725; and in an abridged form, 1776, 8vo). — Landon, Eccteticutical Dictionary f s. v.
CabOx)!! (Heb. Kdbbon\ "jias, in Syriac, a cake; Sept. Xafif^v V. r. Xa/3pa and Xafifid), a pUuse in the " plain*' of Judah, mentioned between Eglon and Lahmam (Josh, xv, 40); possibly the same with Machbenah (1 Chron. ii, 49). It is perhaps the modem rained site d-Knfnr^ marked by Tan de Yelde {Map) at 10 miles south-east of Ashkelon.