Année d'édition 1853
Auteur Adolf Jellinek
Éditeur A.M. Colditz
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Author:
Adolf Jellinek (1821-93) was an Austrian rabbi and scholar. After filling clerical posts in Leipzig (1845–1856), he became a preacher at the Leopoldstädter Tempel in Vienna in 1856. He was associated with the promoters of the Wissenschaft des Judentums, and wrote on the history of the Kabbalah[1] in the tradition of Western scholarship. Jellinek is also known for his work in German on Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia, one of the earliest students of Kabbalah who was born in Spain in 1240. Jellinek's bibliographies (each bearing the Hebrew title Qontres) were useful compilations, but his most important work lay in three other directions: midrashic, psychological and homiletic. (Wikipedia)
The work:
Much of the nineteenth-century literature on mysticism as a universal phenomenon does not identify Kabbalah as mysticism. Furthermore, some nineteenth-century scholars (including Jewish scholars), argued that Judaism was incompatible with mysticism, and denied the existence of Jewish mysticism. Such a view can be found in the eleventh
edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (1910-1911):
"For opposite reasons, neither the Greek nor the Jewish mind lent itself readily to mysticism:the Greek, because of its clear and sunny naturalism; the Jewish, because of its rigid monotheism and its turn towards worldly realism and statutory observance. It is only with the exhaustion of Greek and Jewish civilization that mysticism becomes a prominent factor in Western thought."
It was only in the second half of the nineteenth century that scholars began to apply the new perception of mysticism as a universal, essential component of religion to Kabbalah and Hasidism that the term “Jewish mysticism” became more prevalent. This perception comes to the fore in Adolph Jellinek’s "Auswahl Kabbalisticher Mystik", from 1853 in which he claims: “Mysticism is such an essential stage in the spiritual development of humanity, that it can be found in all nations and all religions. Yet, while Egyptian, Hindu, and Arab mysticism has been studied, Kabbalah has not been researched.”
Source : https://www.academia.edu/19719457/Jewish...
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