Origins of the Kabbalah
by Gershon Scholem
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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. -- Back cover.
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Cabala, History, Judaism, Mysticism, Sefer ha-bahirShowing 3 featured editions. View all 20 editions?
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Origins of the Kabbalah
1987, Jewish Publication Society, Princeton University Press
in English
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0691073147 9780691073149
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala.
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"The question of the origin and early stages of the Kabbalah, that form of Jewish mysticism and theosophy that appears to have emerged suddenly in the thirteenth century, is indisputably one of the most difficult in the history of the Jewish religion after the destruction of the Second Temple."
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