Reincarnation in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism (Jewish Studies (Lewiston, N.Y.), V. 25.)

This work shows that the rabbinic belief-system regarding the afterlife and the human soul was the paramount influence on the development of the doctrine of reincarnation that was crystallized in the "Sefer ha-Bahir" (The Book of Clarity/Illumination), a 12th-century work.