Mirror of His beauty : feminine images of God from the Bible to the early Kabbalah /
"In this beautifully realized study, Peter Schafer 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 Schafer's surprising but persuasive conclusions yield deeper understandin...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2002]
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Colección: | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From the Bible to the Bahir
- Lady Wisdom
- Job: Wisdom Cannot Be Found
- Proverbs: Wisdom as God's Little Daughter and His Embodiment on Earth
- Jesus Sirach: Wisdom as God's Torah
- Wisdom of Solomon: Wisdom as the Medium of Divine Energy and God's Beloved Spouse
- Philo's Wisdom
- God and His Wisdom
- Wisdom and Logos
- Wisdom's Gender
- God's Daughter
- Divine and Human Wisdom
- Summary--and Once Again Gender
- The Gnostic Drama
- The Creation Myth According to the Apocryphon of John
- Barbelo
- The Self-Generated/Christ
- Sophia and Her Offspring
- Sophia's Descent
- Sophia and Barbelo
- The Valentinian Creation Myth According to Irenaeus
- Passionate Sophia
- Sophia and Achamoth, Upper and Lower Wisdom
- The Rabbinic Shekhinah
- Wisdom
- God the Only Creator
- Israel, God's Spouse, Daughter, Sister, and Mother
- Shekhinah
- Personification of the Shekhinah
- The Shekhinah of the Philosophers
- Saadia Gaon
- Judah ben Barzillai of Barcelona
- Judah ha-Levi
- Moses Maimonides
- The Shekhinah in the Bahir
- The Ten Sefirot
- Sexual Symbolism
- The Position of the Shekhinah in the Sefirotic System
- Mediatrix between Heaven and Earth
- The Quest for Origins
- Gnosis
- Christianity
- Eastern Church
- Western Church
- Peter Damian
- Herman of Tournay
- Bernard of Clairvaux
- Godfrey of Admont
- Hildegard of Bingen
- Peter of Blois
- Mary and the Shekhinah
- Counter-Evidence: Mary and the Jews
- Anti-Jewish Legends and Images
- The Jews Disturb Mary's Funeral.