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Publisher Marketing: The Greek Qabalah is a landmark new work in its field, with extensive academic research and a conclusion that is bound to be controversial in some quarters -- namely the Greek origins of the literal Hebrew Qabalah. Drawing from a vast array of ancient authorities and archaeological evidence from Aristotle to Zosimus, from Pythagoras to St. Paul, from Egyptian papyri to graffiti at Pompeii, Kieren Barry carefully documents the use of the alphabet in philosophy, religion, oracles, and magic in the ancient world. Barry takes you on a journey through history, from the dawn of the alphabet over a millennium before Christ to the late Byzantine Era, following the continuous evolution of alphabetic symbolism from the number-mysticism of Pythagoras, through to the Greek philosophers, the Egyptian magicians of Alexandria, the Romans, the Gnostics, the early Church Fathers, the Neoplatonists and the Jews. Special attention is also, given to the topical use of the Qabalah in the Bible, Gnosticism, and in the recently discovered Nag Hammadi Codices.

Contributor Bio: Kieren Barry:
Barry holds two degrees from Auckland University; the first in Law and the second in the Arts, specializing in Classics and Ancient History. He is a lawyer.