Shituf: Primordial Partnership as Ontological Structure and Discursive Strategy in Medieval Spain

This study examines the central category of shituf in the medieval kabbalistic treatise, Ma‘arekhet ha-elohut. I argue that shituf is fundamental to the metaphysics of the Ma‘arekhet and demonstrate its significance to the hermeneutics, sefirotic theosophy, doctrine of emanation, and cosmology of th...

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Main Author: Chajes, Levana Meira (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2024
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2024, Volume: 114, Issue: 2, Pages: 211-233
Further subjects:B Theology
B Catalonia
B Trinity
B Ramon Lull
B Kabbalah
B Spain
B Shlomo Ibn Aderet
B Sefirot
B medieval kabbalah
B Ma‘arekhet ha-elohut
B divine unity
B Heresy
B Rashba
B shituf
B Polemics
B Philosophy
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