Abraham Cohen de Herrera : : gate of heaven : translated from the Spanish with introduction and notes / / Kenneth Krabbenhoft.

With the publication of Abraham Cohen de Herrera's Gate of Heaven , a widely influential work of Jewish mysticism is available for the first time in an unabridged, annotated English edition. In this work, originally written in Spanish for the marrano community of Amsterdam, Herrera (d. 1635) fo...

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Superior document:Studies in Jewish History and Culture ; Volume 5
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series:Studies in Jewish history and culture ; Volume 5.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The Author's Life and Works
  • Life
  • Works
  • Elements of Herrera's Kabbalah
  • Herrera's Historical Importance
  • Remarks on the Translation
  • A Word on the Footnotes
  • Gate of Heaven
  • Book 1
  • Book 2
  • Book 3
  • Book 4
  • Book 5
  • Book 6
  • Book 7
  • Book 8
  • Book 9
  • Book 10
  • Arguments for why there is a First Cause
  • Arguments that prove that ʾEin-Sof the first Cause is not any one of the sefirot or all of them together
  • Index of what is contained in each chapter and book of this divine work of the Gate of Heaven by Abraham Cohen de Herrera
  • Glossary of Kabbalistic and Philosophical Terms
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Hebrew Bible
  • Name Index
  • Studies in European Judaism.