Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah
Biographical note
Jonathan Dauber, Ph.D. (2004) New York University, is Assistant Professor of Jewish Mysticism at Yeshiva University’s Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. He has authored studies on Kabbalah and Eastern-European Hasidism.
Readership
All interested in medieval Jewish mysticism and philosophy/theology. Those interested in the intersection of mysticism and philosophy.
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Creativity in the First Kabbalistic Writings
Chapter 2: The Philosophic Ethos
Chapter 3: Investigating God in Rabbinic and Later Literature
Chapter 4: The Philosophic Ethos in the Writings of the First Kabbalists
Chapter 5: Investigating God in Sefer ha-Bahir
Chapter 6: The Philosophic Ethos in the Writings of Naḥmanides
Conclusion
Chapter 1: Creativity in the First Kabbalistic Writings
Chapter 2: The Philosophic Ethos
Chapter 3: Investigating God in Rabbinic and Later Literature
Chapter 4: The Philosophic Ethos in the Writings of the First Kabbalists
Chapter 5: Investigating God in Sefer ha-Bahir
Chapter 6: The Philosophic Ethos in the Writings of Naḥmanides
Conclusion
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