Sefer Bahir

GPTKB entity

Statements (23)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Kabbalistic text
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Book_of_Brightness
gptkbp:attributedTo gptkb:Nechunya_ben_HaKanah
gptkbp:contains parables
allegories
mystical exegesis
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:Provence,_France
gptkbp:date 12th century
gptkbp:firstPublished Amsterdam, 1651
gptkbp:genre Orthodox Judaism
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sefer Bahir
gptkbp:influenced Orthodox Judaism
gptkbp:language gptkb:Hebrew
gptkbp:mainTheme gptkb:Sefirot
Creation
Divine attributes
mystical interpretation of the Torah
gptkbp:referencedIn gptkb:Zohar
later Kabbalistic literature
gptkbp:significance one of the earliest Kabbalistic texts
gptkbp:structure collection of short paragraphs
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Orthodox_Judaism
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4