The Hidden and Manifest God: Some Major Themes in Early Jewish Mysticism

The Hidden and Manifest God: Some Major Themes in Early Jewish Mysticism

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 are the framework of the Judaic world view in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. [Back cover].

Peter Schäfer

Translated by Aubrey Pomerance

Introduction -- Hekhalot Rabbati -- Hekhalot Zutarti -- Maaseh Merkavah -- Markavah Rabbah -- Enoch -- Results.

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