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  title info:
    title: Light is sown
    sub title: the cultivation of Kabbalah in medieval Castile
  title info:
    title: Cultivation of Kabbalah in medieval Castile
  name:
    name part: Bar-Asher, Avishai
    name part: 1980-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Brown, Jeremy P. (Jeremy Phillip)
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages) : color illustrations.
  abstract: "The book examines the theological journey of Moses de León of Guadalajara, the self-proclaimed "Light of the West" and reputed author of medieval kabbalah's crowning literary achievement, the Zohar. It reaches bold conclusions about the process of kabbalah's florescence in medieval Castile, based on intensive study of a major unpublished work of de León's the "Nameless Composition"-and a wealth of fragmentary texts preserved only in manuscript that have eluded scholarly attention. The book focuses on de León's regimen of pious living, his discourse on gender, his understanding of the Hebrew language, his signature thirteenfold speculation, his competitive relationship with his contemporary Joseph Gikatilla of Medinaceli, and his entanglements with both Christians and Muslims. The book also explores various contexts for understanding de León's creativity and reception, including those of Alfonsine Castile, where innovation in supposedly ancient linguistic theories coincided with an imperial project of cultural annexation, and Renaissance Italy, where Christian apologists preserved otherwise lost kabbalistic writings. Critical discoveries provide unprecedented access to the enigmatic intellectual history of the Zohar and its worlds. The study correlates the large body of de León's Hebrew writings with the canonical Zohar, tracing the parallel paths of their growth. It also reveals with unprecedented clarity the mutually interreferential nature of the twin corpora at the heart of the Castilian Kabbalah-one of the most glorious fruits of Jewish theology"--
  table of contents: Sowing the Zohar -- An order of penitents -- Secrets of the Hebrew language -- Rose of testimony -- Light of the West : Moses de León of Guadalajara.
  note: Avishai Bar-Asher and Jeremy Phillip Brown.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-sp---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: de Leon
      name part: Moses ben Shem Tov
      name part: 1250-1305
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Zohar
  subject:
    topic: Cabala
    geographic: Spain
    geographic: Castile
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    geographic: Spain
    geographic: Castile
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Cabala
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Judaism
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
  subject:
    geographic: Spain
    geographic: Castile
  classification: BM525.A59 B37 2025
  classification: 296.1/62
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (DLC) 2025412023
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250313
    record change date: 20260319210126.2
    record identifier: in00005728383
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng