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Origins of the Kabbalah

By Allan Arkush , Gershom Gerhard Scholem

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1991
ISBN
0691020477, 9780691020471
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6682403 bytes)
Pages
504\505
Time added
2013-12-13 13:44:06

Description

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.

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