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Pages: 634
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-07-14 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
In this monumental work, Raphael Patai opens up an entirely new field of cultural history by tracing Jewish alchemy from antiquity to the nineteenth century. Un
Language: en
Pages: 274
Pages: 274
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-01 - Publisher: A&C Black
The idea of heavenly ascent, while popularized in Jewish mysticism, is neither a unique nor recent one. Expertly tracing its origins back to the ancient Middle
Language: en
Pages: 120
Pages: 120
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-09 - Publisher: Spring Publications
A classic text on alchemy by the leading scholar of Jewish mysticism, Gershom Scholem, is presented here for the first time in English translation. Scholem look
Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-12-05 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
The late Raphael Patai recreates the fascinating world of Jewish seafaring, from Noah's voyage through the Diaspora of late antiquity. Patai weaves together Bib
Language: en
Pages: 290
Pages: 290
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-22 - Publisher:
FOREMOST among the alchemists of the Hellenized world, the "divine" Zosimos practiced a sacred art in which metaphysical and metallurgical realities were fundam