Exam 2 Due: 3/12.  If emailed, exam must come as an attachment.  All exams must be typed and formatted according to MLA.  

Feel free to use all or any of the assigned texts and your notes from lecture. A correct answer will have the following:

1. the correct answer
2. the page number and text in which the answer was found

If either one of the above items is omitted, the answer will be counted as incorrect.  

1. From your assigned readings, identify one example of the hieros gamos.
2. What are Penitence Books? Who used them?
   
3. Name the three characteristics shared by the Ashkenaz and the Kabbalists.
   
4. Who was the first Kabbalistic author to identify himself?
   
5. What preceded the creation of the heaven and the earth?
   
6. For the Hasids, how long did the Golem last?
   
7. How did the Kabbalists answer their critics' accusation that they encouraged pantheism?
   
8. List the three main figures associated with German Pietism.
   
9. For the German Hasids, what replaced ecstatic passion?
   
10. What is the triad of powers of the Unique Cherub Circle?
    
11. What is kavannah?
    
12. Identify the kabbalists associated with early Spanish Kabbalah.
    
13. What is the Unique Cherub?
    
14. Who created a demonological parallel structure of evil emanatory powers?
    
15. Who is the "great lady" of the Bahir?
    
16. What is a recipe for a golem? Why was such a creature made?
    
17. Identify the two main texts that bracket Early Kabbalistic movements.
18. What do the sephirot probably denote in the Sefer Yetsirah?
19. What do the sephirot signify for Kabbalists in general?
20. Who decides the fate of the sephirot?