Concealment and revelation esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications /
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Princeton, N. J. :
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Table of Contents:
- The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone"
- The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature
- The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot
- Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature
- Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer
- Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah
- Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed
- The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism
- From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah
- Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet
- Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah
- From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature
- "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism
- Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret
- The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century
- Esotericism, discontent and co-existence
- Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion.