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The Gnostic Imagination

Gnosticism, Mandaeism and Merkabah Mysticism

by Deutsch & Nathaniel Deutsch

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

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The Gnostic Imagination is the first comprehensive study of the relationship between Gnosticism and Merkabah mysticism. It includes an exhaustive analysis of Gershom Scholem's views on the subject, an analytical survey of other secondary literature, and a focused examination of primary sources. The work explores a wide range of topics including myth, exegesis, ascent traditions, and cosmology. Although the main focus is on western Gnostic traditions and Merkabah mysticism, the book also includes relevant material from Mandaeism and from later stages of Jewish mysticism such as German Pietism and Kabbalah. Not only is this volume the first to survey and evaluate the history of scholarship on this complex subject, but it also creates new pathways for future studies by illuminating the crucial methodological and topical issues in the field.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics, Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity, and Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism.

  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

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  • Gnosticism and esoteric Christianity

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, libris, and openalex matched “Gnosticism”. Retained metadata contains “gnostic” in the title, “Gnosticism” in the subtitle, “gnostic” in the description, and 4 additional metadata match(es).

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  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from national-library-of-poland matched “mistycyzm”. Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the subtitle, “Mysticism” in the description, “mistycyzm” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

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Gnosticism, Mandaeism and Merkabah Mysticism

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25 cm; Bibliogr. s. 154-158. Indeks; X, 163, [2] s

1995-01-01BRILL; E. J. BrillEnglish
  • 9789004102644
  • 9789004672505
  • 9004102647
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