In this discussion of Kabbalah - from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism - Moshe Idel considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:688
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9789637326035
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:249
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9789637326028
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:249
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780826496669
While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole - a category much more vast than ever imagined. Idel's aim is to point out the many instances where Jewish thinkers...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:725
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780826496652
While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole - a category much more vast than ever imagined. Idel's aim is to point out the many instances where Jewish thinkers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:725
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780300108323
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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:384
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780300126266
This sweeping survey of the history of Kabbalah in Italy represents a major contribution from one of the world's foremost Kabbalah scholars. The first to focus attention on a specific center of Kabbalah...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:494
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780300046991
In this prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish mysticism...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780300082883
Exploring the interplay of Jewish messianism and mysticism from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries, a leading scholar of Jewish thought provides new perspectives in this controversial book. Moshe Idel counters common views...more details Format:Paperback Pages:464
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780300068405
Exploring the interplay of Jewish messianism and mysticism from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries, a leading scholar of Jewish thought provides new perspectives in this controversial book. Moshe Idel counters common views...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:464
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780812222104
In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780812241303
There emerged, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a new Jewish elite, notes Moshe Idel, no longer made up of prophets, priests, kings...more details Format:Hardback Pages:323
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780826444530
Impressive dossier on the phenomenon of Saturnism, offering a new interpretation of aspects of Judaism, including the emergence of Sabbateanism....more details Format:Paperback Pages:216
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Moshe Idel
ISBN:9781441121448
Impressive dossier on the phenomenon of Saturnism, offering a new interpretation of aspects of Judaism, including the emergence of Sabbateanism....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:216
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Joshua Trachtenberg;Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780812218626
Alongside the formal development of Judaism from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries, a robust Jewish folk religion flourished--ideas and practices that never met with wholehearted approval by religious leaders yet enjoyed such wide popularity that they could not be altogether excluded from the religion. According to Joshua Trachtenberg...more details Format:Paperback Pages:392
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David B Ruderman;Moshe Idel
ISBN:9780814329313
An examination of the interaction between Jewish culture, medicine, and science during Europe's age of "Scientific Revolution"....more details Format:Paperback Pages:392