Immortality, Resurrection, and the Age of the Universe: A Kabbalistic View »

In these previously unpublished works, Kaplan explores immortality, resurrection, the age of the universe, the place of astrology within Jewish thinking, and a mystical view of the relationship between the sexes. Kaplan combines the insights of ancient kabbalistic teaching with the discoveries of modern science. For example, he shows how modern science's findings regarding the age of the universe may be reconciled with the chronology of the Creation in Genesis.

Library Journal

Robinson's translation into clear English of an important though neglected 16th-century introductory text on Kabbalah (Jewish mystical teaching, which emerged in the 12th and 13th centuries but which believers trace back to foundational revelation at Sinai in the time of Moses) is important as a nonliteral approach to divine revelation. Cordovero was a great systematizer of Kabbalistic theology, an important popularizer of Kabbalah for Jewish people, and someone who combined Jewish ethical teaching and Kabbalistic doctrine. Robinson's footnotes elucidate difficult or obscure points. Recommended for academic, seminary, and large public libraries.