Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition
Author: Gershom Scholem
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Title: Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition
Author: Gershom Scholem
Description: Gershom Scholem's Israel Goldstein Lectures at the Jewish Theological Seminary on the earliest layer of Jewish mysticism: Merkabah literature, the Hekhalot writings, and their connection to Talmudic tradition. Specialized scholarship that traces Kabbalah's gnostic roots.
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