Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem
גרשום שלום
Scholem, 1935
Born
Gerhard Scholem

(1897-12-05)5 December 1897
Died21 February 1982(1982-02-21) (aged 84)
NationalityGerman
Israel
Alma materFrederick William University
Notable workSabbatai Zevi, the Mystical Messiah
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
SpouseFania Freud Scholem
AwardsIsrael Prize
Bialik Prize
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionGerman philosophy
Jewish philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
Kabbalah
Wissenschaft des Judentums
InstitutionsHebrew University of Jerusalem
Main interests
Philosophy of religion
Philosophy of history
Mysticism
Messianism

Gershom Scholem (Hebrew: גֵרְשׁׂם שָׁלוֹם) (5 December 1897 – 21 February 1982) was a German-born Israeli philosopher and historian. Widely regarded as the founder of modern academic study of the Kabbalah, Scholem was appointed the first professor of Jewish mysticism at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]

Scholem is acknowledged as the single most significant figure in the recovery, collection, annotation, and registration into rigorous Jewish scholarship of the canonical bibliography of mysticism and scriptural commentary that runs through its primordial phase in the Sefer Yetzirah, its inauguration in the Bahir, its exegesis in the Pardes and the Zohar to its cosmogonic, apocalyptic climax in Isaac Luria's Ein Sof that is known collectively as Kabbalah.[2][3]

  1. ^ Magid, Shaul (14 May 2024). Edward N. Zalta (ed.). Gershom Scholem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2009 Edition).
  2. ^ Scholem, Gershom (1987). Origins of the Kabbalah. R. J. Zwi Werblowsky. [Philadelphia]: Jewish Publication Society. ISBN 0-691-07314-7. OCLC 13456988.
  3. ^ Scholem, Gershom (1961). Major trends in Jewish mysticism. New York: Schocken Books. ISBN 0-8052-0005-3. OCLC 670936.

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