Immortality, Resurrection and the Age of the Universe: A Kabbalistic View
Robinson's translation into clear English of an important though neglected 16th-century introductory text on Kabbalah (Jewish mystical teaching, which emerged in the 12th and 13th centuries but which believers trace back to foundational revelation at Sinai in the time of Moses) is important as a nonliteral approach to divine revelation. Cordovero was a great systematizer of Kabbalistic theology, an important popularizer of Kabbalah for Jewish people, and someone who combined Jewish ethical teaching and Kabbalistic doctrine. Robinson's footnotes elucidate difficult or obscure points. Recommended for academic, seminary, and large public libraries.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.