Concept

Shi'ur Qomah

Overview

Midrashic text, part of the Heichalot; records, in anthropomorphic terms, the secret names and measurements of God’s corporeal limbs and parts, in the form of teachings of Metatron to Rabbi Yishmael, who transmits it to his students and Rabbi Akiva

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Philosophers who discussed Shi'ur Qomah

• Moses of Narbonne

Related ideas

• Gershom Scholem
• Abraham ibn Ezra
• Jewish eschatology
• Saadia Gaon
• Byzantine Empire
• Rabbi Akiva
• Anthropomorphism
• Maimonides
• Talmud
• Book of Exodus

Place in the tradition

Part of Jewish philosophy.

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