ISBN:
1602804036
,
9781602804036
Language:
English
Pages:
lxiv, 468 pages
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2020
Keywords:
Cabala History and criticism
;
Good and evil Religious aspects
;
Cabala
;
Kabbale
;
Kabbale - Histoire
;
Cabala
;
Good and evil - Religious aspects
;
Cabala - Introductions
;
Good and evil - Religious aspects
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Abstract:
"Primeval Evil analyzes the various versions of a theory maintaining the Kabbalistic visions as to the precedence of evil before good, within the divine realm and in the lower dimensions of reality. It proposes a source for some of the theories of evil in medieval Kabbalah, in the Zurvanic version of Zoroastrism and their reverberations, which is different from the scholarly assumptions as to the influence of Gnosticism on Kabbalah. A series of pre-Kabbalistic, Kabbalistic and Hasidic texts have been addressed, in print and in manuscripts, in order to substantiate the understanding of these theories are related to visions of the divine as all-encompassing, and perfect or perfectible."
Abstract:
"The present study ... is based is basically an expanded version of a compact study consisting of nine pages that was printed in Hebrew in 1980 under the title "The evil thought of the deity" in the Israeli journal Tarbiz." -- preface
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-451) and index
,
PART I
,
God's Thought and the Origin of Evil
,
Decadic Structures and Primeval Evil
,
Hypostatic Privation Precedes Existence
,
PART II
,
Primeval Powers of Impurity and Evil in Spanish Kabbalah
,
Safedian Forms of Kabbalah and Primeval Evil
,
Popular Kabbalah, Hasidism and Preceding Evil
,
Concluding Remarks.
Permalink
