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Peter Schäfer

Mirror of His Beauty

Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah

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In this beautifully realized study, Peter Schäfer investigates the origins of a female manifestation of God in Jewish mysticism. The search itself is a fascinating exploration of the idea of a feminine divinity. And Schäfer's surprising but persuasive conclusions yield deeper understanding of the complex but frequently intimate relationship between Christianity and Judaism--and of the development of religious concepts more generally. Toward the end of the twelfth century, a small book titled the Bahir (Light) appeared in Provence. The first document of Judaism's emerging kabbalistic movement, it introduced a completely new view of God, one th… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-11980-9
  • EAN: 9780691119809
  • Produktnummer: 8728618
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
  • Seitenangabe: 326 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.9 cm 527 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 527

Über den Autor


Peter Schäfer is Professor of Religion and Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies at Princeton University as well as University Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Institut für Judaistik at Freie Universität Berlin. His last book was Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World.

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