ISBN:
9780804759137
Language:
English
Pages:
XI, 322 S.
Year of publication:
2009
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
DDC:
296.1/6
Keywords:
Isaac ben Samuel
;
Isaac ben Samuel
;
Geschichte 1350-1450
;
Geschichte
;
Judentum
;
Cabala History To 1500
;
Mysticism Judaism To 1500
;
History
;
Kabbalistik
;
Palästina
;
Isaac ben Samuel von Akko ca. 13./14. Jrh.
;
Palästina
;
Kabbalistik
;
Geschichte 1350-1450
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Textabschnitte in hebr. Schrift
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
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