Kabbalah

In the form of Jewish mysticism known as Kabbalah, the literary image of God as a suckling mother constructs a metaphysical social relationship between God and humanity that is unprecedented in Jewish theological literature. This striking image arises from a stream of Jewish tho…

This dissertation is devoted to an investigation of the conflicted attitude toward Christianity demonstrable in the writings of the kabbalist Abraham Abulafia (1240-ca. 1291). Abulafia's hostility toward Christianity is explicit and emphatic. He partakes of most of the polemical…