Spheres, Sefirot, and the Imaginal Astronomical Discourse of Classical Kabbalah
The medieval expression of Jewish esotericism known as Kabbalah is distinguished by its imaging of the divine as ten hypostatic sefirot that structure the Godhead and generate the cosmos. Since Gershom Scholem, the preeminent twentieth-century scholar of Kabbalah, declared the term sefirah (sg.) as...
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[2020]
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Harvard theological review
Year: 2020, Volume: 113, Issue: 2, Pages: 230-262 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cabala
/ Diagram
/ God
/ Sefirot
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RelBib Classification: | AZ New religious movements BH Judaism NBC Doctrine of God |
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Kabbalah
B diagrams B Tree of life B visualization of knowledge B ’ilanot B Astronomy |
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