Scholem, Gerhard (Gershom). Qabbala, Das Buch Bahir. Kritische Neuausgabe.

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(KABBALAH).

Scholem, Gerhard (Gershom). Qabbala, Das Buch Bahir. Kritische Neuausgabe.

<<First Edition>> . German, with occasional Hebrew. Illustrated title-page featuring the Ten Sefiroth. pp. (6), 171. Lightly browned. Original printed boards, rubbed. 4to.

Leipzig: Arthur Scholem 1923

Est: $400 - $600

A translation of and commentary to the Sepher HaBahir, the earliest extant Kabbalistic text and one of the most obscure and difficult. The doctoral thesis by Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah. Title page reproduces the woodcut by Hans Burgkmayr that appeared in Paulus Ricius’ “Portae Lucis,” Augsburg, 1516.