Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism

by Arthur Green

Book Overview

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green draws a wide arc including Talmudic, Midrashic, liturgical, Merkavah, German Hasidic, and Kabbalistic works, showing through this single theme the spectrum of devotional, mystical, and magical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691608288
• ISBN13: 9780691608280
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"