Knowledge of God and the development of early Kabbalah [electronic resource] / by Jonathan Dauber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dauber, Jonathan.

Series:

Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 18.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala--History.

Cabala.

God (Judaism).

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Chapter 1 Creativity in the First Kabbalistic Writings

Chapter 2 The Philosophic Ethos

Chapter 3 Investigating God in Rabbinic and Later Jewish Literature

Chapter 4 The Philosophic Ethos in the Writings of the First Kabbalists

Chapter 5 Investigating God in Sefer ha-Bahir

Chapter 6 The Philosophic Ethos in the Writings of Naḥmanides

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-55127-6

9786613863720

90-04-23427-6

OCLC:

808439405

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004234277 DOI