Word and Image in Medieval Kabbalah : The Texts, Commentaries, and Diagrams of the Sefer Yetsirah (The New Middle Ages)

The Sefer Yetsirah (the Book of Creation ) is a core text of the early kabbalah, yet scholars have struggled to establish even the most basic facts about the work. This project attempts to discover the ways in which diagrams accompanying the text and its commentaries show trends in the development of the kabbalistic tradition as a whole.