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The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the
early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled to establish even the
most basic facts about the work. This project attempts to discover
the ways in which diagrams accompanying the text and its
commentaries show trends in the development of the kabbalistic
tradition as a whole.
For many medieval authors, sexuality was the ultimate expression
of embodiment. Sexuality could be a medium for human communication
with the divine, but it could also be a barrier when not
conceptualized or practiced correctly. Broad in scope, this
collection shows several operating models of body and cosmos.
Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety
of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the
essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious,
Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions
about sexuality as people are today.
Exploring the relation between sexuality and cosmology in a variety
of literary texts from the tenth to the sixteenth centuries, the
essays reveal that medieval authors, whether lay or religious,
Christian or Jewish, were grappling with the same sets of questions
about sexuality as people are today.
The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the
early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled to establish even the
most basic facts about the work. This project attempts to discover
the ways in which diagrams accompanying the text and its
commentaries show trends in the development of the kabbalistic
tradition as a whole.
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