Breaching the "walls of captivity": Gershom Scholem's studies of Jewish mysticism.(Theme Issue on Gershom Scholem)

From: The Germanic Review | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: Roemer, Nils | Copyright information

Gershom Scholem's work in Jewish mysticism cannot be described by a single label, such as "intellectual revolutionary" or "historian," although many scholars have made that error. Scholem came to view the Kabbalah as an expression of symbolic religious thought which indicated hidden divine truth. He also developed an analogous relationship between the Kabbalah and history that stated if the Kabbalah only hints at truth that will never be fully revealed, the accurate reconstruction of traditio...

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