Author: Scholem, Gershom Gerhard

Price: $23.99

Category:Health, Fitness & Dieting
Publication Date:2019-02-26T00:00:01Z
Pages:512
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0691182981
ISBN:13:9780691182988
With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern France and Spain, showing its rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God. The Origins of the Kabbalah is a contribution not only to the history of Jewish medieval mysticism, but also to the study of medieval mysticism in general. Now with a new foreword by David Biale, this book remains essential reading for students of the history of religion.