CSWR List Lecture

Adam Afterman (Tel Aviv University): Kabbalistic Neoplatonism: Divine Emanation and Mystical Integration.

Professor Afterman will address the profound impact of Neoplatonism on Kabbalah, the medieval trend of Jewish mysticism. While its impact on the development of a new form of mystical religiosity of communion and unio mystica is relatively known, he will focus on another critical development: Afterman will argue that through an interpretation of Neoplatonic emanation in terms of substantive intra-divine emanation, the kabbalist developed for the first time a Jewish godhead. 

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