Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal and the Soul
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2019
Bloomsbury Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-4729-5098-7 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-4729-5098-7 (ISBN)
This book tells the story of the mystical Jewish system known as Kabbalah, from its earliest origins until the present day.
We trace Kabbalah’s development, from the second century visionaries who visited the divine realms and brought back tales of their glories and splendours, through the unexpected arrival of a book in Spain that appeared to have lain unconcealed for over a thousand years, and on to the mystical city of Safed where souls could be read and the history of heaven was an open book.
Kabbalah’s Christian counterpart, Cabala, emerged during the Renaissance, becoming allied to magic, alchemy and the occult sciences. A Kabbalistic heresy tore apart seventeenth century Jewish communities, while closer to our time Aleister Crowley hijacked it to proclaim ‘Do What Thou Wilt’.
Kabbalah became fashionable in the late 1960s in the wake of the hippy counter-culture and with the approach of the new age, and enjoyed its share of fame, scandal and disrepute as the twenty first century approached.
This concise, readable and thoughtful history of Kabbalah tells its story as it has never been told before. It demands no knowledge of Kabbalah, just an interest in asking the questions ‘why?’ and ‘how?’
We trace Kabbalah’s development, from the second century visionaries who visited the divine realms and brought back tales of their glories and splendours, through the unexpected arrival of a book in Spain that appeared to have lain unconcealed for over a thousand years, and on to the mystical city of Safed where souls could be read and the history of heaven was an open book.
Kabbalah’s Christian counterpart, Cabala, emerged during the Renaissance, becoming allied to magic, alchemy and the occult sciences. A Kabbalistic heresy tore apart seventeenth century Jewish communities, while closer to our time Aleister Crowley hijacked it to proclaim ‘Do What Thou Wilt’.
Kabbalah became fashionable in the late 1960s in the wake of the hippy counter-culture and with the approach of the new age, and enjoyed its share of fame, scandal and disrepute as the twenty first century approached.
This concise, readable and thoughtful history of Kabbalah tells its story as it has never been told before. It demands no knowledge of Kabbalah, just an interest in asking the questions ‘why?’ and ‘how?’
Harry Freedman is a writer and academic with a PhD in Aramaic. His publications include The Gospels’ Veiled Agenda, The Murderous History of Bible Translations and The Talmud: A Biography. He has written for the Guardian, Jewish Chronicle, Jewish Quarterly, Judaism Today and contributed to the Encyclopaedia of Modern Jewish Culture.
List of Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
The Origins of Kabbalah
Out of the East
The Beginning of Kabbalah
Radiance
Christian Cabala
The City of Mystics
Cabala and the Occult Sciences
Golem
Good, Evil and the life of the Soul
Critics and Crisis
Decline and Revival
Hasidism
The Occult Revival
Towards Modernity
The New Age
Appendix: A Very Brief Outline for the Sefirot
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A Note on the Author
Plates
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.01.2019 |
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Zusatzinfo | 1 x 8pp colour plate section |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 594 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Esoterik / Spiritualität | |
Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4729-5098-4 / 1472950984 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4729-5098-7 / 9781472950987 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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