The Emergence of the Kabbalah: Early Sefirotic Theosophy as a Response to Contemporary Theological Challenges

This study offers a fresh view on one of the fundamental problems concerning the history of Jewish thought and religious discourse, namely, the cause for the sudden appearance of the Kabbalistic theosophy of the sefirot in the turn of the 13th century. Based on testimonies of 13th-century Kabbalisti...

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1. VerfasserIn: Ṿays, Tsaḥi 1978- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2022
In: Numen
Jahr: 2022, Band: 69, Heft: 5/6, Seiten: 433-459
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Kabbala / Sefirot / Vorsehungsglaube / Engel / Anbetung / Geschichte 1150-1299
RelBib Classification:AG Religiöses Leben; materielle Religion
BH Judentum
NBC Gotteslehre
NBH Angelologie; Dämonologie
TG Hochmittelalter
weitere Schlagwörter:B Maimonides
B Jewish Mysticism
B Providence
B Jewish Theology
B Mediators
B Kabbalah
B Angels
B Sefirot
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Zusammenfassung:This study offers a fresh view on one of the fundamental problems concerning the history of Jewish thought and religious discourse, namely, the cause for the sudden appearance of the Kabbalistic theosophy of the sefirot in the turn of the 13th century. Based on testimonies of 13th-century Kabbalistic and non-Kabbalistic authors, I show that the wide reception and rapid development of the sefirotic system in this period were due to the fact that it provided theological solutions to two acute difficulties with which contemporary believers and theologians struggled: first, rejection of the notion of divine providence over individuals, and second, enhancement of the Jewish worship of divine mediators.
ISSN:1568-5276
Enthält:Enthalten in: Numen
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15685276-12341646