Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 - 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 in Italy, 1280-1510 write by Moshe Idel. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Kabbalah in Italy, 1280-1510 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. Idel charts the ways that Kabbalistic thought and literature developed in Italy and how its unique geographical situation facilitated the arrival of both Spanish and Byzantine Kabbalah.
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah - 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 Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah write by Moshe Idel. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah—the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the "original" Spanish stage of Kabbalah and Muslim mysticism in the East, mainly in the Galilee. The influence of the Kabbalistic-Sufic synthesis on the later developments of Jewish mysticism is traced, thereby providing a more precise understanding of the history of Kabbalah as an interplay between the theosophical and ecstatic mystical experiences.
Kabbalah
Kabbalah - 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 write by Shahar Arzy. This book was released on 2015-01-01. Kabbalah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain. In lieu of the theological, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches that have generally dominated the study of ecstatic mystical experiences, the authors endeavor to decode the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Arzy and Idel analyze first-person descriptions to explore the Kabbalistic techniques employed by most prominent Jewish mystics to effect bodily reduplications, dissociations, and other phenomena, and compare them with recent neurological observationsand modern-day laboratory experiments. The resultant study offers readers a scientific, more brain-based understanding of how ecstatic Kabbalists achieved their most precious mystical experiences. The study further demonstrates how these Kabbalists have long functioned as pioneering investigators of the human self"--
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 Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age - 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 Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age write by William David Davies. This book was released on 1984. The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 2, The Hellenistic Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
