 The mystical protagonists of the texts are famous Talmudic Sages of Rabbinic Judaism, either pseudepigraphic or documenting remnants of a developed tradition.From the 8th to 11th centuries, the Hekhalot texts, and the proto-Kabbalistic early cosmogonic "Sefer Yetzirah" ("Book of Creation") made their way into European Jewish circles.A controversial esoteric work from associated literature describing a cosmic Anthropos, "Shi'ur Qomah", was interpreted allegorically by subsequent Kabbalists in their meditation on the Sephirot Divine Persona.