Absorbing perfections Kabbalah and interpretation /

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Main Author: Idel, Moshe, 1947-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.