Knowledge of God and the development of early Kabbalah / by Jonathan Dauber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dauber, Jonathan.

Series:

Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 18.

Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, 1873-9008 ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala--History.

Cabala.

History.

God (Judaism).

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

x, 275 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

In Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah, Jonathan Dauber offers a fresh consideration of the emergence and early development of Kabbalah against the backdrop of a re-evaluation of the relationship between early Kabbalistic and philosophic discourse. He argues that the first Kabbalists adopted a philosophic ethos that was foreign to traditional Rabbinic Judaism but had taken root in Languedoc and Catalonia under the influence of newly available philosophical materials. In this ethos, the act of investigating God was accorded great religious significance, and it was its adoption by the first Kabbalists that helped spur them to engage in their investigations of God and, in so doing, develop Kabbalah. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chap. 1. Creativity in the first kabbalistic writings

Chap. 2. The philosophic ethos

Chap. 3. Investigating God in rabbinic and later Jewish literature

Chap. 4. The philosophic ethos in the writings of the first kabbalists

Chap. 5. Investigating God in Sefer ha-Bahir

Chap. 6. The philosophic ethos in the writings of Nahmanides.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page) and index.

ISBN:

9789004234260

9004234268

9789004234277

9004234276

OCLC:

798437797