Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation /
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| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.