Morton Smith and Gershom Scholem, correspondence 1945-1982:
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Main Author: Scholem, Gershom (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden Brill 2008
Series:Jerusalem studies in religion and culture v. 9
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-200) and index
Cover13; -- Introduction -- Letters 18211;122 -- Appendix A -- Publications and Work in Progress -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Index
The American historian of ancient religions Morton Smith (1915-1991), had studied with the great scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), while in Jerusalem during the Second World War. After the war, the two started a long, fascinating and at times intense correspondence that ended only with Scholem's death. These letters, found in the Scholem archive in the National Library in Jerusalem, provide a rare perspective on the world and the approach of two leading historians of religion in the twentieth century. They also shed important new light upon Smith's discovery of a letter
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 206 pages)
ISBN:9789047433767
9047433769
9789004168398
9004168397

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