Mirror of his beauty : feminine images of God from the Bible to the early Kabbalah
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TextSeries: [Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World]Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press c2002Description: xiv, 306p.; ill.; bibliog. notes; bibliog.; indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0691090688
- BT153.M6 S29 2002
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Part 1 -- from the Bible to the Bahir. 1 Lady Wisdom. 2 Philo's Wisdom. 3 The Gnostic drama. 4 The Rabbinic Shekhinah. 5 The Shekhinah of the philosophers. 6 The Shekhina in the Bahir. Part 2 -- the quest for origins. 7 Gnosis. 8 Christianity. 9 Counter-evidence -- Mary and the Jews. 10 How much "origins," or -- the anxiety of influence
'...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 understanding of the complex but frequently intimate relationship between Christianity and Judaism--and of the development of religious concepts more generally.'
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