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Origins of the Kabbalah / Gershom Gerhard Scholem.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scholem, Gershom Gerhard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cabala--History and criticism.
- Cabala--History.
- Cabala.
- Sefer ha-bahir.
- Local Subjects:
- Cabala--History and criticism.
- Cabala--History.
- Cabala.
- Sefer ha-bahir.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (505 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [1991]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- One of the most important scholars of our century, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) opened up a once esoteric world of Jewish mysticism, the Kabbalah, to concerned students of religion. The Kabbalah is a rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God: its twelfth-and thirteenth-century beginnings in southern France and Spain are probed in Origins of the Kabbalah, a work crucial in Scholem's oeuvre. The book is a contribution not only to the history of Jewish medieval mysticism but also to the study of medieval mysticism in general and will be of interest to historians and psychologists, as well as to students of the history of religion.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Oontents
- Sources
- Editor's Preface
- Author's Preface to the First (German) Edition
- Chapter One. The Problem
- Chapter Two. The Book Bahir
- Chapter Three. The First Kabbalists in Provence
- Chapter Four. The Kabbalistic Center in Gerona
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- ISBN:
- 1-4008-2042-1
- OCLC:
- 880531375
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