by Marla Segol (Author)
Traces the evolution of a Hebrew microcosm that models the interaction of human and divine bodies at the heart of both kabbalah and some forms of Western sex magic. Focuses on Jewish esoteric and medical sources from the fifth to the twelfth century from Byzantium, Persia, Iberia, and southern France.
Author Biography
Marla Segol is Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah: The Texts, Commentaries, and Diagrams of the "Sefer Yetsirah" and coeditor of Sexuality, Sociality, and Cosmology in Medieval Literary Texts.
Dimensions: 0.79 x 9.21 x 6.06 IN
Publication Date: November 01, 2022
