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Hasidism
Between Ecstasy and Magic
Av Moshe Idel
Häftad, 1995
504 kr
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Approaches Hasidism as an important stage in Jewish mysticism, rather than as a mere reaction to or result of historical and social forces.
Introduction to the Kabbalah
Häftad, 1998
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487 kr
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Provides an introduction to the world of the Kabbalah, focusing on both the Kabbalist as a person and the major teachings of the Kabbalah.This book acquaints the reader with the world of the Kabbalah. The first part discusses the Kabbalist as a person: the personal transmission of Kabbalistic …
Hidden and Manifest God
Some Major Themes in Early Jewish Mysticism
Häftad, 1992
455 kr
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This book represents the first wide-scale presentation and interpretation of pre-kabbalistic, Jewish mysticism. This is the Hekhalot or Merkavah mysticism. The emphasis is on the conceptions of God, the angels, and man that the texts provide and that are the framework of the Judaic world view in …
From Tradition to Commentary
Torah and Its Interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy
Häftad, 1991
391 kr
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This book examines Torah and its interpretation both as a recurring theme in the early rabbinic commentary and as the very practice of the commentary. It studies the phenomenon of ancient rabbinic scriptural commentary in relation to the perspectives of literary and historical criticisms and their …
Footprints of God
Divine Accommodation in Jewish and Christian Thought
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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This book traces one exegetical, interpretative principal, divine accommodation, in Jewish and Christian thought from the first to the nineteenth century. The focus is upon major figures and the place of accommodation in their work.Divine accommodation, the idea that divine revelation had to be …
Books of Contemplation
Medieval Jewish Mystical Sources
Av Mark Verman
Häftad, 1992
371 kr
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The earliest medieval Jewish mystical writings, or kabbalah, date from the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. This is the first book to focus on the most prodigious group active at that time-the 'Circle of Contemplation'.The 'Circle of Contemplation' generated a mystical theology that …
Paradoxical Ascent to God
The Kabbalistic Theosophy of Habad Hasidism
Av Rachel Elior
Häftad, 1992
463 kr
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This book is a study of the Habad Hasidism movement, an influential part of the Hasidic Movement, which originated in the eigteenth century. Habad was founded by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (1745-1813) who established a Hasidic community in Belorussia and who set forth the new Habad doctrine in a …
Enlightened Will Shine
Symbolization and Theurgy in the Later Strata of the Zohar
Häftad, 1993
455 kr
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This book analyzes the use of symbolism and theurgy in two sections of the Zohar, the central text of the kabbalah. These compositions, Tiqqunei ha-Zohar and Ra'aya Meheimna have been particularly loved by kabbalists. Giller demonstrates the significance of their contributions to theosophical …
Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment
Av Allan Arkush
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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Moses Mendelssohn, the author of numerous works on natural theology and ethics, was also the first modern philosopher of Judaism. This book places Mendelssohn's thought within the context of the Leibnizian-Wolffian school, the writings of Kant and Lessing and other major figures of the …
Philosopher and Prophet
Judah Halevi, the Kuzari, and the Evolution of His Thought
Häftad, 1995
487 kr
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Relates the various strata of Halevi's Book of Kuzari to the different periods of Halevi's philosophical development.This book is the first to describe the development of Halevi's thought with a view to reaching a better understanding of its inherent systematic difficulties, as well as enabling …
Rivalry of Genius
Jewish and Christian Biblical Interpretation in Late Antiquity
Häftad, 1995
455 kr
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Compares Rabbinic midrash and Patristic exegesis in late antiquity and provides an introduction to the various forms of Patristic literature.By comparing interpretations of the Hebrew Bible by Jews, Christians, and Gnostics in Late Antiquity, this book provides a unique perspective on these …
Holiness in Words
Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety
Häftad, 1996
463 kr
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A strategy for reading Heschel's major works, as well as a new route to understanding religious writing in general: a lucid study of modern religious and ethical thought using literary criticism.Holiness in Words: Abraham Joshua Heschel's Poetics of Piety is both an introduction to reading …
Problems and Parables of Law
Maimonides and Nahmanides on Reasons for the Commandments (Ta’amei Ha-Mitzvot)
Av Josef Stern
Häftad, 1998
371 kr
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A rigorous analysis of Maimonides' and Nahmanides' explanations of the Mosaic commandments that challenges received notions of the relation between these two seminal thinkers.A central topic in medieval Jewish philosophy and thought was the explanation of the Mosaic commandments. From Philo and …
Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
Av Moshe Idel
Häftad, 1987
463 kr
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The first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah.This book represents the first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes a description of the techniques employed by his master, including the …
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
Av Moshe Idel
Häftad, 1988
455 kr
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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 …
Between Kant and Kabbalah
An Introduction to Isaac Breuer's Philosophy of Judaism
Häftad, 1990
393 kr
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This is the first full-length, systematic study in English of Isaac Breuer, a founder of Agudat Israel, whose intellectual achievements reflected the world of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber in an Orthodox mirror. It sheds light on an often neglected aspect of German Jewry's last phase and …
Four Approaches to the Book of Psalms
From Saadiah Gaon to Abraham Ibn Ezra
Av Uriel Simon
Häftad, 1990
422 kr
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Uriel Simon describes the fascinating controversy that raged from the tenth to the twelfth centuries regarding the theological status and literary genre of the Psalms. Saadiah Gaon, who initiated the controversy, claimed that the Psalter was a second Torah-the Lord's word to David-and by no means …
Between Worlds
The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon
Häftad, 1991
414 kr
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It is a work of sound scholarship dealing with an interesting historical figure and his unique cultural world. The author focuses correctly on the transition from Italian to Ottoman Jewish culture in the life of David Messer Leon and reveals much about the continuities and discontinuities between …
Footprints of God
Divine Accommodation in Jewish and Christian Thought
Inbunden, 1993
1111 kr
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This book traces one exegetical, interpretative principal, divine accommodation, in Jewish and Christian thought from the first to the nineteenth century. The focus is upon major figures and the place of accommodation in their work.Divine accommodation, the idea that divine revelation had to be …
Esther in Medieval Garb
Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages
Inbunden, 1993
1111 kr
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This comprehensive history, the first to appear in English, gives a vivid portrayal of the Book of Esther's role in the intellectual and cultural life of Jews in the Middle Ages. Much of the study is based on material that exists only in manuscripts, and it introduces many exegetes hitherto unknown …
Esther in Medieval Garb
Jewish Interpretation of the Book of Esther in the Middle Ages
Häftad, 1993
437 kr
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This comprehensive history, the first to appear in English, gives a vivid portrayal of the Book of Esther's role in the intellectual and cultural life of Jews in the Middle Ages. Much of the study is based on material that exists only in manuscripts, and it introduces many exegetes hitherto unknown …
Studies in the Zohar
Inbunden, 1993
1087 kr
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This book deals with the "Book of Splendor" (Sefer ha-Zohar), the greatest achievement of Kabbalah and one of the most influential sources of Western mysticism. This book offers a new interpretation of the Zohar, analyzing both its theoretical content and its historical context; it also brings the …
Studies in the Zohar
Häftad, 1993
393 kr
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This book deals with the "Book of Splendor" (Sefer ha-Zohar), the greatest achievement of Kabbalah and one of the most influential sources of Western mysticism. This book offers a new interpretation of the Zohar, analyzing both its theoretical content and its historical context; it also brings the …
Studies in Jewish Myth and Messianism
Häftad, 1992
401 kr
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This book deals with the nature and development of Jewish myth from the Talmudic period through Kabbalah to Hasidism. It describes the changes in this myth in its various stages and the external influences on it. The author shows that myth is in the essence of the Jewish religion and that, rather …
Rav Avraham Itzhak Hacohen Kook
Between Rationalism and Mysticism
Inbunden, 1993
1076 kr
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This is the first comprehensive philosophical-theological study of the mystical thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the Chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, and the great representative of the most significant renewal of the Jewish mystical …
Rav Avraham Itzhak Hacohen Kook
Between Rationalism and Mysticism
Häftad, 1993
422 kr
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This is the first comprehensive philosophical-theological study of the mystical thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook (1865-1935), the Chief Rabbi of Palestine prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, and the great representative of the most significant renewal of the Jewish mystical …
Jew and Philosopher
The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss
Inbunden, 1993
1111 kr
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The first book to deal with the Jewish thought of Leo Strauss.This is the first book to deal with the Jewish thought of Leo Strauss. Known primarily as one of the leading contemporary political thinkers, this book reveals another side of Leo Strauss-as one of the most important Jewish thinkers of …
Jew and Philosopher
The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss
Häftad, 1993
393 kr
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The first book to deal with the Jewish thought of Leo Strauss.This is the first book to deal with the Jewish thought of Leo Strauss. Known primarily as one of the leading contemporary political thinkers, this book reveals another side of Leo Strauss-as one of the most important Jewish thinkers of …
Enlightened Will Shine
Symbolization and Theurgy in the Later Strata of the Zohar
Inbunden, 1993
1111 kr
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This book analyzes the use of symbolism and theurgy in two sections of the Zohar, the central text of the kabbalah. These compositions, Tiqqunei ha-Zohar and Ra'aya Meheimna have been particularly loved by kabbalists. Giller demonstrates the significance of their contributions to theosophical …
Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment
Av Allan Arkush
Inbunden, 1994
1111 kr
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Moses Mendelssohn, the author of numerous works on natural theology and ethics, was also the first modern philosopher of Judaism. This book places Mendelssohn's thought within the context of the Leibnizian-Wolffian school, the writings of Kant and Lessing and other major figures of the …
