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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...
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Pub. Date
2006.
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360 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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A subject of perennial study and the focus of a recent surge of popular interest, Kabbalah is an ancient Jewish doctrine of esoteric knowledge concerning God, creation, and nature. This essential guide was written by one of the most influential figures in modern occultism. And unlike lesser works, it focuses on the actual sacred texts to offer an objective, reliable interpretation.--
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Series
Very short introductions volume 162
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Description
xi, 130 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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English
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"This book links the broad elements of Jewish traditional thought-probably going back to the Babylonian Captivity and beyond-with both Eastern and Western philosophy and later Christian insights. Qabalah could be described as a confidential Judaic explanation of the paradox of 'the Many and the One'-the complexity and diversity within a monotheistic unity. Whereas the Old Testament outlines the social and psychological development of a tightly knit...
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