“I wouldn’t say academic or traditional scholarship on kabbala would support the claim that it’s a combination of neo-platonism and gnosticism; those count among its many influences, but just as the bible’s akkadian, egyptian, and canaanite influences are plentiful without making the bible a simple combination of (just) those influences, neo-platonism and gnosticism contributed much to kabbala without making it a simple intersection or merging of those discourses.”
