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Gershom scholems major trends in jewish mysticism 50. An examination of mysticism from its beginnings in antiquity to its latest phase in hasidism. Downloads pdf from berlin to jerusalem by gershom scholem. Major trends in jewish mysticism tells the history of jewish mysticism following the advent of christianity which gershom scholem considers to have been the first and still the most catastrophic jewish mystic movement. Major trends in jewish mysticism gershom scholem download bok.
In 1915 scholem enrolled at the frederick william university in berlin today, humboldt university, where he studied mathematics, philosophy, and hebrew. Full text of major trends in jewish mysticism see other formats. For a sophisticated understanding, not only of the dynamics of jewish mysticism, but of the exquisite complexities of jewish history and tradition. Major trends in jewish mysticism ebook by gershom scholem. Major trends in jewish mysticism 9780805210422 by gershom scholem.
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Major trends in jewish mysticism gershom gerhard scholem. Gershom scholem was a professor of jewish mysticism at the hebrew university in jerusalem until his death in 1982. Mysticism and mystery of gershom scholem books haaretz. One of the most distinguished jewish scholars of this century, gershom scholem almost singlehandedly created the field of academic study of jewish mysticism. The mystical messiah, and on jews and judaism in crisis also now available from paul dry. He is also the author of the messianic idea in judaism, on the kabbalah and its symbolism, on the mystical shape of the godhead and zohar. Gershom scholem books list of books by author gershom. Gershom sholem rediscovered the kabbalah and brought it from obscurity to world.
A critical analysis and programmatic discussion, atlanta, ga, scholars press. What i am going to present is a critical appreciation involving a certain philosophical outlook, as applied to the life texture of jewish history, which in its fundamentals i believe to be active and alive to this day 3. Pubschockenpathbreaking study dividing rabbinic ascent mysticism into merkavah divine chariot and hekhalot celestial palaces traditions, positing an especially strong flowering after the jewish expulsion from spain to the rise of eastern european hasidim. Major trends in jewish mysticism gershom scholem a collection of lectures on the features of the movement of mysticism that began in antiquity and continues in hasidism today. Major trends in jewish mysticism ebook written by gershom scholem. In his introduction to major trends in jewish mysticism, scholem blames jewish scholars of the haskalah period, who, because of what he decried their antagonism and neglect of the study of kabbalah, allowed the field be all but monopolized by charlatans and dreamers scholems chapter on merkabah mysticism and jewish gnosticism deals mainly with the. Read major trends in jewish mysticism by gershom scholem available from rakuten kobo. Be the first to ask a question about major trends in jewish mysticism. Published may 2nd 1995 by schocken books first published 1929. From moses mendelssohn to julius guttmann, the philosophers of judaism have hesitated to admit that any kind of mysticism could be valued as a legitimate offspring of the purity of monotheistic jewish thought. Buy a cheap copy of major trends in jewish mysticism book by gershom scholem.
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