Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation / Moshe Idel.
2002
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Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation / Moshe Idel.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, [2002]
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©2002
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xvii, 668 pages ; 24 cm
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The world-absorbing text
The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire
Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah
The book that contains and maintains all
Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books
Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism
Secrecy, binah, and derishah
Semantics, constellation, and interpretation
Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics
The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah
Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah
Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism
Tradition, transmission, and techniques
Concluding remarks
Appendix 1. Pardes : the fourfold method of interpretation
Appendix 2. Abraham Abulafia's Torah of blood and ink
Appendix 3. R. Isaac of Acre's exegetical quandary
Appendix 4. The exile of the Torah and the imprisonment of secrets
Appendix 5. On oral Torah and multiple interpretations in Hasidism
Appendix 6. "Book of God"/"book of law" in late-fifteenth-century Florence.
The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire
Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah
The book that contains and maintains all
Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books
Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism
Secrecy, binah, and derishah
Semantics, constellation, and interpretation
Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics
The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah
Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah
Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism
Tradition, transmission, and techniques
Concluding remarks
Appendix 1. Pardes : the fourfold method of interpretation
Appendix 2. Abraham Abulafia's Torah of blood and ink
Appendix 3. R. Isaac of Acre's exegetical quandary
Appendix 4. The exile of the Torah and the imprisonment of secrets
Appendix 5. On oral Torah and multiple interpretations in Hasidism
Appendix 6. "Book of God"/"book of law" in late-fifteenth-century Florence.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-645) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2007. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0300083793 alkaline paper
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