This book represents the first wide-scale presentation and interpretation of pre-kabbalistic, Jewish mysticism. This is the Kekhalot or Merkavah mysticism. The emphasis is on the conceptions of God, the angels and man that the texts provide and that…
This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish…