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Temple portals : studies in aggadah and midrash in the Zohar /
This monograph discusses the Zohar, the most important book of the Kabbalah, as a late strata of the Midrashic literature. The author concentrates on the 'expanded' biblical stories in the Zohar and on its relationship to the ancient Talmudic Aggadah. The analytical and critical examinatio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Hebrew |
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Berlin : [Jerusalem] :
De Gruyter ; Magnes,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ;
Bd. 88. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface ; Table of Contents ; Chapter One: The Zohar as Midrash ; Why midrash? ; The Zohar's homiletic methodology ; Chapter 2: The Zoharic Homilies: General Outlines ; Chapter 3: From the Rabbinic to Zoharic Aggada: Preservation, Reworking, and Alteration.
- Chapter 4: "The Light Hidden for the Righteous": For Whom is it Reserved? "The light reserved for the righteous": The early traditions ; The "hidden light" and the "light of thought" ; The "world to come" and the "future" ; The "hidden light" in the Zohar.
- The "hidden-present": In the wake of the Zohar Conclusion ; Chapter 5: Adam's Sin: Its Meaning and Essence ; The meaning of Adam's sin: Polemical residues in nascent kabbalistic thought ; "He entered in tranquility and departed in terror": Original sin in the writings of R. Moses de Léon.
- "Many accounts": Original sin in the Zohar Exegetical tendencies and the exegete ; Conclusion ; Chapter 6: Enoch and Elijah: From Angel to Man, Man to Angel ; The ancient traditions about Enoch and Elijah ; Enoch and Elijah's ascents in medieval philosophy.
- Elijah's ascent: Nahmanides' view Enoch's and Elijah's ascents in the zoharic circle and later works ; Conclusion ; Chapter 7: "He failed": The Story of Abraham's Origins ; The zoharic homily: The exegetical context ; The story of Abraham's origins in medieval Jewish literature.