REL 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Kabbalah, Book Of Enoch, Theosophy
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Reading note: creating judaism, seeing god - chapter 9. Thesis: the author is discussing the role of jewish mysticism, and its relationship along. Quote (properly attributed and cited): the 13th century kabbalist inherited and incoherent and messy set of jewish mystical traditions. As we have seen, earlier jewish texts - including those that entered the jewish canon (such as the jewish bible, the mishnah, in the babylonian. Talmud) and those that did (1 enoch) or had a marginal status (the hekhalot) - contained scattered, sometimes ambivalent, reflections of the human desire to experience god directly to his or her senses (satlow, michael. New terms/concepts (if applicable): the different views on jewish mysticism and the role of. God in day to day life was all very interesting and new to me.
