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The Tree That Is All: Jewish-Christian Roots of a Kabbalistic Symbol in Sefer ha-Bahir

The Tree That Is All: Jewish-Christian Roots of a Kabbalistic Symbol in Sefer ha-Bahir J. Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Vol. 3, pp. 31-76 Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by licence unly © 1993 The Tree That Is All: Jewish-Christian Roots of a Kabbalistic Symbol in 5efer ha-Bahir Elliot R. Wolfson New York University) US/l 'ta ... !l£yaAu rrav'tu Emcr<pUATt (plato, Republic, 497 d, 9) I Despite the generally accepted claim that Seftr ha-Bahir is the "first" theo- sophie kabbalistic work to appear in medieval Europe, the precise vorgeschichte of this text - in a literary and historical sense - is still unclear. Previous scholarship has attempted to illuminate the generally Gnostic or mythic orientation of different textual units and tradition-com- plexes that were redacted into the literary form of a distinct text in twelfth- century Provence, reflecting the philosophical and theosophical concerns current in that time and place. 1 Some specific Gnostic texts from Late Antiquity that have interesting parallels to the Bahir, both conceptually and *The seeds for this study were planted when I was the Regenstein Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at The Divinity School, University of Chicago, Winter Quarter 1992. The final draft of the paper has been significantly enhanced by a seminar on Seftr ha-Bahir http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Brill

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© 1994 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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J. Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Vol. 3, pp. 31-76 Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by licence unly © 1993 The Tree That Is All: Jewish-Christian Roots of a Kabbalistic Symbol in 5efer ha-Bahir Elliot R. Wolfson New York University) US/l 'ta ... !l£yaAu rrav'tu Emcr<pUATt (plato, Republic, 497 d, 9) I Despite the generally accepted claim that Seftr ha-Bahir is the "first" theo- sophie kabbalistic work to appear in medieval Europe, the precise vorgeschichte of this text - in a literary and historical sense - is still unclear. Previous scholarship has attempted to illuminate the generally Gnostic or mythic orientation of different textual units and tradition-com- plexes that were redacted into the literary form of a distinct text in twelfth- century Provence, reflecting the philosophical and theosophical concerns current in that time and place. 1 Some specific Gnostic texts from Late Antiquity that have interesting parallels to the Bahir, both conceptually and *The seeds for this study were planted when I was the Regenstein Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at The Divinity School, University of Chicago, Winter Quarter 1992. The final draft of the paper has been significantly enhanced by a seminar on Seftr ha-Bahir

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Published: Jan 1, 1994

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