Verlag:
The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania
Powerful bodies in the Shiʻur Qomah -- Medicine and magic in Assaf's Sefer Refuot and the Sefer Yetsirah -- Microcosm, rationalism, and Kabbalah -- Feeling, wisdom, and sexuality in the Sefer Bahir -- Medieval into modern sex magic. "Traces the...
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Powerful bodies in the Shiʻur Qomah -- Medicine and magic in Assaf's Sefer Refuot and the Sefer Yetsirah -- Microcosm, rationalism, and Kabbalah -- Feeling, wisdom, and sexuality in the Sefer Bahir -- Medieval into modern sex magic. "Traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the interaction of human and divine bodies at the heart of both Kabbalah and some forms of Western sex magic. Focuses on Jewish esoteric and medical sources from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia, Iberia, and southern France"--
