Origins of the Kabbalah

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Origins of the Kabbalah
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gershom Gerhard Scholem
Foreword by David Biale
Edited by R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
Translated by Allan Arkush
SeriesPrinceton Classics
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:512
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140
Category/GenreJudaism - mysticism
ISBN/Barcode 9780691182988
ClassificationsDewey:296.16
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Princeton University Press
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publication Date 26 February 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

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

Author Biography

Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. He was professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. David Biale is the Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Gershom Scholem: Master of the Kabbalah.

Reviews

"No great textual scholar, no master of philology and historical criticism commands a technique at once more scrupulously attentive to its object and more instinctive with the writer's voice [than Scholem]. That voice reaches out and grabs the layman."-George Steiner, New Yorker "[Scholem's] work on Jewish mysticism, messianism, and sectarianism, spanning now half a century, constitutes ... one of the major achievements of the historical imagination in our time. I would contend that it is of vital interest not only to anyone concerned with the history of religion but to anyone struggling to understand the underlying problematics of the human predicament."-Robert Alter, Commentary "This book has been a classic in its field since it was first issued in 1950, and it still stands as uniquely authoritative and intriguingly instructive.... [It is] a monument of revelation and insight bridging anthropology, religion, sociology, and history."-Publishers Weekly