Concealment and revelation : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications /

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During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their particular understanding revealed the actual secret of the Torah. They presented their own readings in a cod...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Halbertal, Moshe
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Hebrew
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
425-1789
Mysticism > Judaism.
Cabala > History.
Judaism > History > Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.
Mysticisme > Judaïsme.
Kabbale > Histoire.
Judaïsme > Histoire > 425-1789.
RELIGION > Judaism > Rituals & Practice.
RELIGION > Philosophy.
Cabala
Judaism > Medieval and early modern period
Mysticism > Judaism
Mystiek.
Esoterisme.
Jodendom.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone"
  • The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature
  • The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot
  • Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature
  • Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer
  • Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah
  • Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed
  • The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism
  • From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah
  • Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet
  • Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah
  • From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature
  • "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism
  • Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret
  • The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century
  • Esotericism, discontent and co-existence
  • Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion.

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