The Kabbalah: its doctrines, development, and literature
The Kabbalah: Its Doctrines, Development, and Literature, by the Hebrew scholar Christian D. Ginsburg, first appeared in 1865 and is reprinted here from a 1920 impression. In a compact essay, Ginsburg sets out the speculative system of Jewish mysticism: the Endless, En Sof, and its emanation through the ten Sefirot, the cosmology and the doctrine of the soul and its transmigrations, with tables showing the permutations of letters used in kabbalistic interpretation. He then traces the movement's history and literature, discussing the claims of antiquity for the Zohar and its real origins. It is a lucid, scholarly introduction to a difficult subject. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the opening pages are free.
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