Word and image in medieval Kabbalah
Subtitle: the texts, commentaries and diagrams of the Sefer Yetsirah
By: by Marla Segol
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781403969743
Subjects: Sefer Yeẓirah
Table of contents: title: Chapt. 1. Word and image in medieval Kabbalah; title: Chapt. 2. Situating the text; title: Chapt. 3. Genre as argument in the Sefer Yetsirah: a new look at its literary structure; title: Chapt. 4. Thinking in lines and circles; title: Chapt. 5. The letterforms: how did he combine them, and why?; title: Chapt. 6. Golem diagrams: golem-making, astrology, and messianism; title: Chapt. 7. Postscripts to the golem: word, image, and body.