Origins Of The Kabbalah by Gershom Scholem
A scholarly account tracing the emergence of Kabbalah as a systematic mystical doctrine in medieval Jewish culture, arguing that it crystallized in 12th–13th century Provence and Spain out of older Merkavah and Heikhalot traditions and contemporary philosophical, liturgical, and messianic currents; it examines key texts (especially the Zohar), doctrines such as the sefirot, and the social-intellectual conditions that shaped the movement, demonstrating how mystical speculation responded to and transformed Jewish theology and communal life.
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