Originally published in Mircea Eliade (ed.), Encyclopedia of Religion (1987), vol. 6, pp. 11-17. God in Postbiblical Judaism Postbiblical Jewish thought concerning God can be divided into four distinct periods: the rabbinic or Talmudic (from the first century BCE to the sixth century CE), the philosophical or theological (represented chiefly by the medieval thinkers), the qabbalistic…