Bernhard Pick: 4 books

The Cabala by Bernhard Pick A short critical introduction to the Kabbalah. Although the Cabala belongs to the past, it demands our attention on account of the interest taken in it by such men as Raymond Lully, John Reuchlin and others. Contents: Name and origin of the Cabala; development...

By Cabala we understand that system of religious philosophy, or more properly, of Jewish theosophy, which played so important a part in the theological and exegetical literature of both Jews and Christians ever since the Middle Ages. The Hebrew word Cabala (from Kibbel) properly denotes "reception,"...

This is a short monograph on the Kabbalah, written from a purely academic and somewhat critical point of view. Pick traces the origins and background of the Kabbalah to Jewish scholars of mediaeval Spain. He does not attribute any deeper roots to it historically, nor does he examine the roots of Jewish...

Having defined the term Cabala, which was still commonly used for “oral tradition” in the 13th and 14th centuries even after the technical sense of the word was established, we must be careful to distinguish between cabala and mysticism. Like Other Eastern nations, the Jews were naturally inclined...