Origins of the Kabbalah

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Origins of the Kabbalah

Statement of responsibility

Gershom Scholem ; edited by R.J. Zwi Werblowsky ; translated from the German by Allan Arkush

Creator

• Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982

Contributor

• Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi, 1924-2015.

Editor

• Werblowsky, R. J. Zwi, 1924-2015.

Subject

• Cabala -- History
• Sefer ha-bahir

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

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. -- Back cover

Member of

• Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala
• Princeton paperbacks

Index

index present

Language note

Translation of: Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Princeton paperbacks