Topics: A brief history of Jewish esotericism, Philo of Alexandria, Heikhalot and Merkavah mysticism, Book of Enoch, Egyptian and Persian Influence, Hellenism, “Medieval” Judaism, Arabic influences, Talismanic Magic, Astral Magic, Astrology, Alchemy, The Brethren of Purity, Picatrix, Kabbalah, The Zohar, Sefer Yetzirah, the Sephiroth, Christian Cabala, Platonism/Neoplatonism, Averroes, Maimonides, Petrus Alfonsi, Nachmanides, Pablo Christiani, Abraham Abulafia, Joachim of Fiore, Ramon Llull, Marsilio Ficino, Pico Della Mirandola, Elijah Del Medigo, Flavius Mithridates, Yohanan Alemanno, Dominican and Franciscan orders, the Latin polemical tradition, etc.
Speakers: Dan Attrell and Justin Sledge
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