ISBN:
9789047433767
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Brill eBook titles 2008
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
296.092
Keywords:
Scholem, Gershom Gerhard Correspondence
;
Smith, Morton Correspondence
;
Scholem, Gershom
;
Smith, Morton
Abstract:
Preliminary Materials /G.G. Stroumsa -- Letters 1–122 /G.G. Stroumsa -- Appendix A /G.G. Stroumsa -- Publications And Work In Progress /G.G. Stroumsa -- Appendix B /G.G. Stroumsa -- Appendix C /G.G. Stroumsa -- Index /G.G. Stroumsa.
Abstract:
The American historian of ancient religions, Morton Smith (1915-1991), studied with the great scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), when he was in Jerusalem during the Second World War. After the war, the two started a long, fascinating and at times intense correspondence that ended only with Scholem's death. These letters, found in the Scholem archive in the National Library in Jerusalem, provide a rare perspective on the world and the approach of two leading historians of religion in the twentieth century. They also shed important new light upon Smith's discovery of a letter attributed to Clement of Alexandria referring to a secret Gospel of Mark
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-200) and index
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004168398.i-208
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