Mirror of His beauty : feminine images of God from the Bible to the early Kabbalah / Peter Schäfer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schäfer, Peter, 1943-

Series:

Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Femininity of God--History of doctrines.

Femininity of God.

Femininity of God--Biblical teaching.

Cabala.

Physical Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2002]

Summary:

"Innovative, bold, well written, full of new insights, and based on broad scholarship and a creative imagination as well as plain old common sense, Peter Schafer's new study makes an important contribution to the history of Jewish mysticism, Jewish-Christian cultural studies, and the history of religions."--Ivan Marcus, Yale University

"Reading this book is a great delight. Schafer deals with a fascinating issue--the history of the female deity--and, as he does so, he fully reveals the intimacy and closeness of Jewish-Christian relations during the Middle Ages. The book is provocative, written with drive, fluent in diverse literary spheres, and of major importance."--Israel Jacob Yuval, Hebrew University

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-300) and index.

ISBN:

0691090688

OCLC:

48507975