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Greg Stanton said:Rosanne, I didn't say that early Jewish visual art doesn't exist, just that it is very, very rare.
I agree with Rosanne, this iconclast argument is based on a fallacy, there are many examples of visual art from both religious and secular jewish manuscripts of the place and period, many of which bear comparison with at least few examples of tarot trump imagery (fools and jugglers for example, shepherds under trees - examples of which I have given previously in other threads in response to the false iconoclast argument).
There are many parallels between the tarot and kabbalah (jewish, christian and hermetic) which can be further developed via exegesis; it is the existence of such parallels that allowed for an identification between them to be made by 18th century occultists on. Despite such parallels I doubt the two were directly connected originally, and therefore voted no.