Mirror of His Beauty
Subtitle: Feminine Images of God from the Bible to the Early Kabbalah (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 27, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780691119809
Subjects: Judaism; Mysticism; Nature & existence of God; Religion; Religion - World Religions; Comparative Religion; Judaism - Kabbalah & Mysticism; Spirituality - Feminine; European History; Jewish Studies; Religion / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism; Christianity - History - General
First sentence: THE CONCEPT of "Wisdom" (Hebrew hokhmah, Greek sophia), and the literature surrounding it, is one of the most distinctive and most discussed cultural phenomena in the history of ancient Israel.