As light before dawn the inner world of a medieval kabbalist /

Main Author: Fishbane, Eitan P., 1975-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Series:Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10395966
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index. 
505 0 |a pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship -- The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority -- Intentions and the recovery of meaning -- Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God -- Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience -- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union. 
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