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School of thought

Late-antique dating

Dates Sefer Yetzirah to late-antique Palestine (roughly 3rd-6th c.), against a Hellenistic Neoplatonic/Pythagorean background and prior to Islam.

Gershom Scholem

Readings in this camp 1

• Gershom Scholemengine

  3rd-6th c. Palestine; sefirot = ideal numbers, a Neoplatonic background

  on Sefer Yetzirah 1:1-2 -- the thirty-two paths and the ten sefirot