Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation
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Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation
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- Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation
- Title remainder
- Kabbalah and interpretation
- Statement of responsibility
- Moshe Idel
- Subject
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- Bible, A.T | Pentateuque -- Critique, interprétation, etc. juives
- Bible, Pentateuch
- Bible, Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
- Cabala
- Cabala -- History
- Electronic books
- History
- Kabbala
- Kabbale -- Histoire
- Mystiek
- RELIGION -- Judaism | Kabbalah & Mysticism
- RELIGION -- Judaism | Sacred Writings
- Jodendom
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah - from the mystical trends of mediaeval Judaism to modern Hasidism - this book considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. It takes as a starting point the fact that the post-biblical Jewish world lost its geographical centre with the destruction of the temple and so was left with a textual centre, the Holy Book. The author argues that a text-oriented religion produced language-centred forms of mysticism. Against this background, he demonstrates how various Jewish mystics amplified the content of the Scriptures so as to include everything: the world, or God, for example
- Cataloging source
- COCUF
- Dewey number
- 296.1/6
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BM526
- LC item number
- .I295 2002eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- bibliography
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