Primeval evil in Kabbalah : totality, perfection, perfectibility / Moshe Idel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Idel, Moshe, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cabala.

Good and evil--Religious aspects.

Good and evil.

Physical Description:

lxiv, 468 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, NY : KTAV, 2020.

Summary:

"Primeval Evil analyzes the various versions of a theory maintaining the Kabbalistic visions as to the precedence of evil before good, within the divine realm and in the lower dimensions of reality. It proposes a source for some of the theories of evil in medieval Kabbalah, in the Zurvanic version of Zoroastrism and their reverberations, which is different from the scholarly assumptions as to the influence of Gnosticism on Kabbalah. A series of pre-Kabbalistic, Kabbalistic and Hasidic texts have been addressed, in print and in manuscripts, in order to substantiate the understanding of these theories are related to visions of the divine as all-encompassing, and perfect or perfectible." --Provided by publisher

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART I

1. God's Thought and the Origin of Evil

2. Decadic Structures and Primeval Evil

3. Hypostatic Privation Precedes Existence

PART II

4. Primeval Powers of Impurity and Evil in Spanish Kabbalah

5. Safedian Forms of Kabbalah and Primeval Evil

6. Popular Kabbalah, Hasidism and Preceding Evil

7. Concluding Remarks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-451) and index.

ISBN:

1602804036

9781602804036

OCLC:

1182854095

Publisher Number:

99986279873