Open AccessThe Reverse of the Numinous. Ahistoricism and Time in the Kabbalah of the Sefer Ha-Zohar
Author(s) -
José Antonio Fernández López
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
revista española de filosofía medieval/revista española de filosofía medieval
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2530-7878
pISSN - 1133-0902
DOI - 10.21071/refime.v25i.11636
Subject(s) - kabbalah , numinous , jewish mysticism , mysticism , theosophy , reading (process) , context (archaeology) , judaism , philosophy , literature , art , history , theology , linguistics , archaeology , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
In this hermeneutical approach to Kabbalah and the Zohar, from the double perspective of the history of ideas and the reading of texts that emerged in a given time and context, this article investigates the historical and temporal components of cabalistic mysticism. The medieval Kabbalah, itself an experience of the numinous marked by the ahistorical, is not completely alien to historical experiences. This is the search for a compression of the bonds that unite the emergence of the mystic and the historical time lived in the heart of Spanish medieval Judaism.