An edition of Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala (1900)

Origins of the Kabbalah

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An edition of Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala (1900)

Origins of the Kabbalah

1st English ed.

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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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Jewish Publication Society, Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
487

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Cabala, History, Judaism, Mysticism, Sefer ha-bahir

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Cover of: Origins of the Kabbalah
Origins of the Kabbalah
1987, Jewish Publication Society, Princeton University Press
in English - 1st English ed.
Cover of: Origins of the Kabbalah
Origins of the Kabbalah
1987, Princeton University Press
in English
Cover of: Urpsrung und Anfaenge der Kabbala
Urpsrung und Anfaenge der Kabbala
1962, De Gruyter
in German

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Translation of: Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala.

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[Philadelphia], [Princeton]

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Dewey Decimal Class
296.1/6
Library of Congress
BM526 .S363513 1987

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Pagination
xvi, 487 p. ;
Number of pages
487

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OL2714437M
ISBN 10
0691073147
LCCN
86007381
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53231
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2917402

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OL1264880W

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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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