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  • Idel, Mosheh  (2)
  • London [u.a.] : Continuum [u.a.]  (1)
  • New Haven [u.a.] : Yale University Press  (1)
  • Mysticism Judaism  (2)
  • 1
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    Kabbalah : a neurocognitive approach to mystical experiences (2015)
    New Haven [u.a.] : Yale University Press
    Details
    ISBN: 0300152361 , 9780300152364
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 206 S. , Ill.
    Year of publication: 2015
    DDC: 296.712
    RVK:
    BD 5850
    Keywords: Cabala Psychology ; Cognitive neuroscience ; Mysticism Judaism ; Psychological aspects ; Cabala Psychology ; Cognitive neuroscience ; Mysticism Judaism ; Psychological aspects ; Kabbala ; Kognitionswissenschaft ; Mystische Erfahrung ; Kabbala ; Neurologie
    Abstract: "In this original study, Moshe Idel, an eminent scholar of Jewish mysticism and thought, and the cognitive neuroscientist and neurologist Shahar Arzy combine their considerable expertise to explore the mysteries of the Kabbalah from an entirely new perspective: that of the human brain. In lieu of the theological, sociological, and psychoanalytic approaches that have generally dominated the study of ecstatic mystical experiences, the authors endeavor to decode the brain mechanisms underlying these phenomena. Arzy and Idel analyze first-person descriptions to explore the Kabbalistic techniques employed by most prominent Jewish mystics to effect bodily reduplications, dissociations, and other phenomena, and compare them with recent neurological observations and modern-day laboratory experiments. The resultant study offers readers a scientific, more brain-based understanding of how ecstatic Kabbalists achieved their most precious mystical experiences. The study further demonstrates how these Kabbalists have long functioned as pioneering investigators of the human self"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    Ben : sonship and Jewish mysticism (2007)
    London [u.a.] : Continuum [u.a.]
    Details
    ISBN: 9780826496652 , 0826496652 , 9780826496669 , 0826496660
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 725 S. , 24 cm
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Year of publication: 2007
    Series Statement: The Kogod library of Judaic studies 5
    Series Statement: The Kogod library of Judaic studies
    DDC: 296.3/1
    RVK:
    BD 1230
    RVK:
    BD 5850
    Keywords: Mysticism / Judaism ; Cabala / History ; Son of God (Judaism) ; Geschichte ; Judentum ; Cabala History ; Mysticism Judaism ; Son of God (Judaism) ; Sohn ; Judentum ; Sohn Gottes ; Rabbinische Literatur ; Kabbala ; Sohn ; Judentum ; Sohn Gottes ; Rabbinische Literatur ; Sohn Gottes ; Kabbala
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [671]-696) and index , Righteousness, theophorism and sonship in Rabbinic and heikhalot literatures -- The Son (of God) in Ashkenazi forms of esotericism -- Son as an intellectual/eschatological entity in ecstatic Kabbalah -- The sexualized Son of God in the theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah -- Christological and non-Christological sons of God in the Italian Renaissance and their reverberations -- The Son of God as a righteous in Ḥasidism
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Autorenbiografie
    URL: Verlagsangaben
    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
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