Golem: Jewish Magical And Mystical Traditions On The Artificial Anthropoid by Moshe Idel

Golem: Jewish Magical And Mystical Traditions On The Artificial Anthropoid

Moshe Idel

354 pages • first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Idel's thesis is that the role of the golem concept in Judaism was to confer an exceptional status to the Jewish elite by bestowing it with the capability of supernatural powers deriving from a profound knowledge of the Hebrew language and its mag...

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