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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Main Author: Chajes, J. H. 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2020]
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2020, Volume: 113, Issue: 2, Pages: 230-262
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Cabala / Diagram / God / Sefirot
RelBib Classification:AZ New religious movements
BH Judaism
NBC Doctrine of God
Further subjects:B Kabbalah
B diagrams
B Tree of life
B visualization of knowledge
B ’ilanot
B Astronomy
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