Origins of the Kabbalah / Gershom Scholem ; edited by R.J. Zwi Werblowsky ; translated from the German by Allan Arkush ; with a new foreword by David Biale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982, author.

Contributor:

Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi, 1924-2015, editor.

Arkush, Allan, 1949- translator.

Series:

Princeton classics

Standardized Title:

Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala--History.

Cabala.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 487 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Jewish Publication Society ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]

Contents:

1 The State of Research: The Views of Graetz and Neumark

2 Southern France in the Twelfth Century: The Catharist Movement -The Jews of Languedoc

3 The Esoteric Doctrine of the Creation and the Merkabah in Pre-kabbalistic Judaism: The Literature of the Hekhaloth and Jewish Gnosticism

4 The "Book of Creation"

5 The Oldest Documents Concerning the Appearance of the Kabbalah and the Publication of the Book Bahir

Chapter 2 The Book Bahir p. 49

1 Literary Character and Structure of the Book: Its Different Strata

2 Gnostic Elements in the Bahir: Pleroma and Cosmic Tree

3 Other Gnostic Elements: The Potencies of God-Middoth-Gnostic Reinterpretations of Talmudic Sayings-The Double Sophia and the Symbolism of the Sophia as Daughter and Bride

4 Identification of Ancient Sources Preserved in the Tradition of the German Hasidim: Raza Rabba and Bahir

5 The First Three Sefiroth

6 The Six Lower Sefiroth: The Limbs of the Primordial Man and Their Symbolism-The Place of Evil

7 The Syzygy of the Masculine and the Feminine: The Seventh and Tenth Sefirah in the Bahir-The Symbolism of the Righteous

8 The Symbolism of the Shekhinah and the Feminine: The Jewel

9 Elements of the Doctrine of the Aeons Among the German Hasidim

10 The Transmigration of Souls and the Mysticism of Prayer in the Bahir

Chapter 3 The First Kabbalists In Provence p. 199

1 Abraham ben Isaac of Narbonne

2 Abraham ben David (Rabad)

3 Jacob the Nazirite and the Groups of Ascetics in the Community, Perushim and Nezirim-Catharism and Kabbalah-Revelations Granted to the Ascetics and the Forms of These Revelations-The Doctrine of Kawwanah in Prayer

4 Isaac the Blind and His Writings

5 Isaac's Doctrine of the 'En-sof and the Sefiroth

6 Good and Evil in Isaac and Other Sources

7 Isaac's Contemplative Mysticism: Kawwanah and Debhequth

8 The Writings of the 'Iyyun Circle

9 Fundamental Conceptions of This Circle: The Primordial Ether- Light- and Language-Mysticism

10 The Thirteen Middoth, Ten Sefiroth and Three Lights Above Them in Pseudo-Hai

11 The Sefirotic Doctrines of a Pseudoepigraphic Epistle

Chapter 4 The Kabbalistic Center In Gerona p. 365

1 The Kabbalists of Gerona and Their Writings

2 Debates and Disturbances Resulting from the Propaganda of the Kabbalists: Their Role in the Controversy over the Writings of Maimonides

3 Elevation Through Kawwanah: The Nothing and the Hokhmah

4 The Doctrines of Azriel and Nahmanides on the Process of Emanation

'En-sof, the Primordial Will and the Primordial Idea-The Sefiroth

5 Man and the Soul

6 The Book Temunah and the Doctrine of World Cycles or Shemittoth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691182988

0691182981

OCLC:

1086565120

Publisher Number:

99979955292