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Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala

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Also known as Origins of the Kabbalah; Ursprung und Anfänge der Kabbala. English

by Gershom Scholem, R. J. Zwi Werblowsky, Allan Arkush, Project Muse, Gershom Gerhard Scholem & David Biale

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, French, German, Indonesian, Spanish
  • Content type: Fiction

Description

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With the publication of The Origins of Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern France and Spain, showing its rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God. The Origins of the Kabbalah is a contribution not only to the history of Jewish medieval mysticism, but also to the study of medieval mysticism in general. Now with a new foreword by David Biale, this book remains essential reading for students of the history of religion.

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Occultism and esotericism

    A contributing source assigned this topic during controlled cataloging, but the exact triggering term is not present in the merged metadata.

  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref, harvard, libris, national-library-of-poland, openalex, and openlibrary matched “Cabala”, “kabała”, and “Kabbalah”. Retained metadata contains “Kabbalah” in the alternative title, “Kabbalah” in the description, “Cabala” in the subject metadata, and 3 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Kabbalah”· via Crossref
    • “Kabbalah”· via Harvard LibraryCloud
    • “Kabbalah”· via Libris, National Library of Sweden
    • “kabała”· via National Library of Poland
    • “Kabbalah”· via OpenAlex
    • “Cabala”· via Open Library
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary matched “Mysticism”. Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the description and “Mysticism” in the subject metadata.

    • “Mysticism”· via Open Library
    • “Mysticism”· in description
    • “Mysticism”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 20 editions; 5 cataloged here.

Origins of the Kabbalah

Crossref publisher-supplied book record

1 online resource ( xxi, 487 pages.) :

2019-12-31Jewish Publication Society; Princeton University PressEnglish
  • 9780691182988
  • 9780691184302
  • 0691184305
Catalog record

Origins of the Kabbalah

Crossref publisher-supplied book record

1991-12-31Princeton University Press; Princeton University Press eBooksIndonesian
  • 9781400820429
Unknown

Origins of the Kabbalah

Libris bibliographic record

1987—English
  • 9780691073149
  • 9780827602687
  • 0691073147
  • 0827602685
Catalog record

Subjects

33 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

ISBN-13
ISBN-10
LCCN
OCLC
DOI
Open Library work
Internet Archive
Harvard
  • 99153846990803941
  • 99155705809903941
Libris
National Library of Poland
  • 1489841
OpenAlex

Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 20 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL1264880W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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