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Language Torah and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia
Author | : Moshe Idel |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0887068316 |
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Abraham Abulafia, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah, exposed a mysticism that includes a deep interest in language as a universe in itself, to be studied as the philosophers study nature, in order to attain higher knowledge than natural science and speculative philosophy. The status of Hebrew as the natural, intellectual, and primordial language is discussed against the background of the medieval speculations regarding this topic. Abulafia proposed an elaborate hermeneutical system, unique in the whole Kabbalistic literature, for both its systematic exposition and the eccentric exegetical devices it describes. Various versions of this sevenfold system occur in several manuscripts that are collected and analyzed here in detail for the first time. Torah was regarded by Abulafia as the most important text, reflecting the constitution of the intellectual world and being identical with the Active intellect and even to God Himself. On the other hand, Torah was interpreted in Abulafia's Kabbalah as an allegory to the psychological processes of the mystic, an approach different from the regular Kabbalistic interpretation of this text as a symbolic corpus reflecting the divine intrasefirotic life.
Abraham Abulafia
Author | : Moshe Idel |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111881905 |
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Abraham Abulafia kabbalist and Prophet
Author | : Elliot R. Wolfson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105110298291 |
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Abraham Abulafia s Esotericism
Author | : Moshe Idel |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2020-10-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783110598773 |
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This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia's sources leads into an analysis of the esoteric meaning on the famous parable of the three rings, considering also the possible connection between this parable, which Abdulafia inserted into a book dedicated to his student, the 13th century rabbi Nathan the wise, and the Lessing's Play "Nathan the Wise." The book also examines Abulafia's universalistic understanding of the nature of the Bible, the Hebrew language, and the people of Israel (or the Sinaic revelation). The universal aspects of Abulafia’s thought have been put in relief against the more widespread Kabbalistic views which are predominantly particularistic. A number of texts have also been identified here for the first time as authored by Abulafia.
The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
Author | : Moshe Idel |
Publsiher | : Suny Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013013738 |
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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 role of music. There is a discussion of the characteristics of his mystical experience and the erotic imagery by which it was expressed. Based on all the extant manuscript material of Abulafia, this book opens the way to a new understanding of Jewish mysticism. It points to the importance of the ecstatic Kabbalah for the later developments in mystical Judaism.
Veda and Torah
Author | : Barbara A. Holdrege |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781438406954 |
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Enlarges our understanding of the term "scripture" through a comparative study of Veda and Torah.
People of the Book
Author | : Moshe Halbertal |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780674038141 |
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Halbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of normative and formative authority, with an emphasis on the changing status and functions of Mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah.
Kabbalah in Italy 1280 1510
Author | : Moshe Idel |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780300126266 |
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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.