Absorbing Perfections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Absorbing Perfections write by Moshe Idel. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Absorbing Perfections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah—from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism—one of the world’s foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel takes as a starting point the fact that the postbiblical Jewish world lost its geographical center with the destruction of the temple and so was left with a textual center, the Holy Book. Idel argues that a text-oriented religion produced language-centered forms of mysticism. Against this background, the author demonstrates how various Jewish mystics amplified the content of the Scriptures so as to include everything: the world, or God, for example. Thus the text becomes a major realm for contemplation, and the interpretation of the text frequently becomes an encounter with the deepest realms of reality. Idel delineates the particular hermeneutics belonging to Jewish mysticism, investigates the progressive filling of the text with secrets and hidden levels of meaning, and considers in detail the various interpretive strategies needed to decodify the arcane dimensions of the text.
Temporary Perfections
Temporary Perfections - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Temporary Perfections write by Gianrico Carofiglio. This book was released on 2011-09-15. Temporary Perfections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fourth Guerrieri in the series. An investigation into the disappearance of a poor little rich girl in Southern Italy.
Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism
Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism write by Moshe Idel. This book was released on 2005-02-15. Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders. After surveying the variety of scholarly approaches to religion, the author also offers what he proposes as an eclectic approach, and a perspectivist one. The latter recommends to examine religious phenomena from a variety of perspectives. The author investigates the specific issue of the pillar in Jewish mysticism by comparing it to the archaic resort to pillars recurring in rural societies. Given the fact that the ascent of the soul and pillars constituted the concerns of two main Romanian scholars of religion, Ioan P. Culianu and Mircea Eliade, Idel resorts to their views, and in the Concluding Remarks analyzes the emergence of Eliade's vision of Judaism on the basis of neglected sources.
Kabbalah and Eros
Kabbalah and Eros - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kabbalah and Eros write by Moshe Idel. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Kabbalah and Eros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book, the world's foremost scholar of Kabbalah explores the understanding of erotic love in Jewish mystical thought. Encompassing Jewish mystical literatures from those of late antiquity to works of Polish Hasidism, Moshe Idel highlights the diversity of Kabbalistic views on eros and distinguishes between the major forms of eroticism. The author traces the main developments of a religious formula that reflects the union between a masculine divine attribute and a feminine divine attribute, and he asks why such an "erotic formula" was incorporated into the Jewish prayer book. Idel shows how Kabbalistic literature was influenced not only by rabbinic literature but also by Greek thought that helped introduce a wider understanding of eros. Addressing topics ranging from cosmic eros and androgyneity to the affinity between C. J. Jung and Kabbalah to feminist thought, Idel's deeply learned study will be of consuming interest to scholars of religion, Judaism, and feminism.
The Jewish Body
The Jewish Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jewish Body write by Maria Diemling. This book was released on 2009. The Jewish Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores perceptions of the "Jewish body" in variety of early modern Jewish sources. It discusses, among other topics, ideas of the ideal body in normative sources, the influence of Kabbalistic ideas on Jewish-Christian discourse and the link between melancholy and exile.
