Primeval evil in Kabbalah
Subtitle: totality, perfection, perfectibility
By: Moshe Idel
Publisher: KTAV
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9781602804036
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Cabala; Good and evil; Religious aspects; Introductions
Description: "Primeval Evil analyzes the various versions of a theory maintaining the Kabbalistic visions as to the precedence of evil before good, within the divine realm and in the lower dimensions of reality. It proposes a source for some of the theories of evil in medieval Kabbalah, in the Zurvanic version of Zoroastrism and their reverberations, which is different from the scholarly assumptions as to the influence of Gnosticism on Kabbalah. A series of pre-Kabbalistic, Kabbalistic and Hasidic texts have been addressed, in print and in manuscripts, in order to substantiate the understanding of these theories are related to visions of the divine as all-encompassing, and perfect or perfectible."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-451) and index.