Absorbing perfections [electronic resource] : Kabbalah and interpretation / Moshe Idel.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 668 p.)ISBN:- 0300083793 (alk. paper)
- 9780300083798 (alk. paper)
- 9780300135077 (electronic bk.)
- 0300135076 (electronic bk.)
- 296.1/6 21
- BM526 .I295 2002eb
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-645) and index.
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.
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