Sefirot as the Essence of God in the Writings of David Messer Leon
1982; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 7; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0364009400000751
ISSN1475-4541
Autores Tópico(s)Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
ResumoThe period from the middle of the fifteenth century to the middle of the sixteenth century marks a transition in Jewish intellectual history in the Italian Renaissance characterized by the decline of Jewish rationalism and the rise of kabbalah. This process reached its culmination with the printing of Sefer ha-Zohar in 1558–59, an event accompanied by heated controversy on many fronts. During these years we find those thinkers who unambiguously profess their allegiance to one camp or the other, but we also find many whose allegiance is at least superficially ambivalent.
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