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Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period
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…
Mysteries of the Alphabet: the Origins of Writing
Traces the origins of the alphabet beginning with the first pictograms of 5,000 years ago, describing the changes the alphabet has gone through in different countries and cultures.
A Blake Dictionary: the ideas and symbols of William Blake
Assembles, synthesizes, and interprets the clues to Blake's meaning.
Art and Symbols of the Occult
Presents 150 examples of symbols and images from alchemy, astrology and other occult traditions.
What Number is God?: metaphors, metaphysics, metamathematics, and the nature of things
Ch. 1. Meta-View -- Ch. 2. Image-ination in Mathematics and Religion -- Ch. 3. Holy Mathematics -- Ch. 4. God the Definite Integral and Cantorian Religion -- Appendix A. Understandings of Sign, Symbol, Metaphor, and Model in Religion and Mathematics:…
On the Kabbalah and It's Symbolism
Gershom Scholem guides the reader through central themes in the intricate history of the Kabbalah. He clarifies the relations between mysticism and established religious authority; the mystics' interpretation of the Torah and their attempts to…