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Author : Association for Jewish Studies
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : Association for Jewish Studies
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Mysticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039198366
Author : Joseph Dan
Publisher : Mod Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015032145461
This book describes the history of Jewish mysticism, introducing the wide-ranging and varied mystic writings known collectively as the "Heikhalot" and the "Merkavah" literature, with its description of mystic spiritual elevations, and meetings between the mystics and superior beings-and even with God. Explains Jewish mysticism's relationships to parallel streams of thought, both within and outside Judaism.
Author : Joseph Dan
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461629184
Interest in Jewish mysticism is, in our generation, widespread and growing. From Hebrew schools to Hollywood, people of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge are pursuing the subject. Books, magazines, journals, and classes are rapidly growing in number. One result of this burst of interest and popularization of Jewish mysticism is the problem of misinformation. The need for reliable source material has become crucial. This four-volume work by Professor Joseph Dan is a monumental event in the publishing history of English-language reference books on the subject of Jewish mystical thought and practice. Professor Dan's credentials are of the highest order. The recipient of the Israel Prize (considered to be Israel's highest honor), Joseph Dan is the Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and continues to be a visiting professor at some of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the world.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664224571
Presents a historical overview of the movements and trends in Jewish mysticism including Hekhaloth mysticism, classical and Lurianic Kabbalah, Shabbetai Zevi, and Hasidism, seeking to define and explain how the various currents of tradition throughout the centuries are related. Original.
Author : John J. Collins,Pieter G. R. Villiers,Adela Yarbro Collins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110597264
The nature and origin of Jewish mysticism is a controversial subject.This volume explores the subject by examining both the Hebrew and Aramaic tradition (Dead Sea Scrolls, 1 Enoch) and the Greek philosophical tradition (Philo) and also examines the Christian transformation of Jewish mysticism in Paul and Revelation. It provides for a nuanced treatment that differentiates different strands of thought that may be considered mystical. The Hebrew tradition is mythical in nature and concerned with various ways of being in the presence of God. The Greek tradition allows for a greater degree of unification and participation in the divine. The New Testament texts are generally closer to the Greek tradition, although Greek philosophy would have a huge effect on later Christian mysticism.The book is intended for scholars and advanced students of ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
Author : Arthur Green
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400864607
Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green draws a wide arc including Talmudic, Midrashic, liturgical, Merkavah, German Hasidic, and Kabbalistic works, showing through this single theme the spectrum of devotional, mystical, and magical views held by various circles of Jews over the course of a millennium or more. The first portion of the work deals with late antiquity, emphasizing the close relationship between texts of what is often depicted as "normative" Judaism and their mystical/magical analogues. The mythic imagination of ancient Judaism, he suggests, is shared across this spectrum. The latter portion of the work turns to the medieval Jews who inherited this ancient tradition and its evolution into Kabbalah, where keter plays a key role as the first of the ten divine emanations or sefirot. The nature of these sefirot as symbols and the emergence of a structured and hierarchical symbolism out of the mythic imagery of the past are key themes in these later chapters. As a whole, Keter takes the reader on an exciting tour of the interior landscapes of the Jewish imagination, offering some remarkable insights into the nature of mystical and symbolic thinking in the Jewish tradition. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Joseph Dan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004335150
A monumental event in the publishing history of English-language reference books on the subjects of Jewish mystical thought and practice.
Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691142159
'The Origins of Jewish Mysticism' offers an in-depth look at the history of Jewish mysticism from the book of Ezekiel to the Merkavah mysticism of late antiquity. The author reveals what these writings seek to tell us about the age-old human desire to get close to and communicate with God.
Author : Marvin A. Sweeney
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467458733
Questions of how the divine presence is understood and interacts within the world have been around since the time of the biblical prophets. The Jewish mystical tradition conceives God as active, just, powerful, and present while allowing for divine limitation so as to understand the relationship between G-d and the Jewish people in their history. Jewish Mysticism surveys Jewish visionary and mystical experience from biblical and ancient Near Eastern times through the modern period and the emergence of modern Hasidism. Marvin Sweeney provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of Jewish studies in the twenty-first century, providing an accessible overview of texts and interpretative issues. Sweeney begins with the biblical period, which most treatments of Jewish mysticism avoid, and includes chapters on the ancient Near East, the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets and Psalms, the Latter Prophets, Jewish Apocalyptic, the Heikhalot Literature, the Sefer Yetzirah and early Kabbalistic Literature, the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah and the Shabbetean Movement, and the Hasidic Movement. Placing Jewish apocalyptic literature into the larger development of ancient Jewish visionary and mystical experience, Sweeney fills gaps left by the important but outdated work of others in the field. Ideal for the scholar, student, or general reader, Jewish Mysticism provides readers with a fresh understanding of the particular challenges, problems, needs, and perspectives of Judaism throughout its history.
Author : Daniel Chanan Matt
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809123878
This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.
Author : Michael D. Swartz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161550027
The phenomena we call magic and mysticism had a profound effect on the shaping of Judaism in late antiquity. In this volume, Michael D. Swartz offers a wide-ranging study of the purposes, world-views, ritual dynamics, literary forms, and social settings of ancient Jewish magic and mysticism and their function in religion and history. Based on the author's studies over the past few decades, he proposes innovative methods for the study of these two phenomena. The author focuses especially on the rituals of early Jewish magic and mysticism, their social contexts, and the textual dimension of this complex literature. He also offers introductions to these phenomena. Michael D. Swartz argues that the authors of these texts employed intricate technologies, literary and artistic forms, and physical practices to negotiate between the values and world-views of their cultures and the texture of everyday life.
Author : Peter Schäfer,Joseph Dan
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cabala
ISBN : 3161461436
Sponsored by the Gershom Scholem Center for the Study of Jewish Mysticism.
Author : Harry Fox,Daniel Maoz,Tirzah Meacham
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527535039
Jewish mysticism approaches God as no-thing or nothing, reflecting Judaism’s traditional identification of God as incorporeal. Whereas technical philosophical language often employed to discuss Jewish mysticism has a tendency to ward off otherwise interested readers, this study sufficiently breaks down the technical language of Jewish mysticism in its various expressions to allow a beginner to benefit from what may otherwise be indescribable and only approached by consideration of what is not rather than what is. Integral to the title, From Something to Nothing, is the concept that God cannot be something, because that would be restricting, so God is simply no-thing. Ironically, the conventional religious expression for the biblical notion of creation is “something from nothing”, whereas the title of this volume is its precise opposite, which may at first seem to be illogical – creation in reverse. However, in a volume dedicated to various deliberations on magic and mysticism, the ultimate reality may receive expression as nothingness, that is, no-thingness, no quality associated with things. What adds to our difficulty today is that nothingness is inextricably linked with silence. Is silence also an element or indication of an ultimate reality or its absence? Or is it merely the reflection of nothing whatsoever? This is at the heart of modern debates between atheists and believers. Believers feel that even this silence speaks to this ultimate reality, whereas atheists claim that if you cannot show it, then you do not know it. In other words, believers are victims of their own wishful thinking. From Something to Nothing memorializes Canadian mystic and scholar Zalman Schachter Shalomi, z”l, engaging in particular aspects that he addressed at some phase of his colourful and erudite life, providing the reader with a broad spectrum of both phenomenological and intellectual topics.
Author : Geoffrey W. Dennis
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738709055
How are alchemy, astrology, magic, and numerology related to Jewish mysticism? The fabulous, miraculous, and mysterious are all explored in this comprehensive reference to Jewish esotericism-the first of its kind! From amulets and angels to the zodiac and zombies, the "Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism" features over one thousand alphabetical entries. Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis offers a much-needed culmination of Jewish occult teachings that includes significant stories, mythical figures, practices, and ritual objects. Spanning the Bible, the Midrash, Kabbalah, and other mystical branches of Judaism, this well-researched text is meant to trigger insight, spark inspiration, and illuminate one of the oldest esoteric traditions still alive today.
Author : Devi Stern
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780738757056
"Kabbalistic symbols and the energy exercises 'synch up' amazingly well to create a unique field of high vibration."—Donna Eden, renowned healer, author of Energy Medicine, and creator of Eden Energy Medicine Heal Yourself, Heal the World Combining the mysticism of Kabbalah with energy medicine and physical movement, this hands-on guide presents many unique and user-friendly practices. Energy Healing with the Kabbalah helps you to achieve personal growth as you explore universal ideas of oneness, healing, and holding opposites in balance. Discover new meaning in the unpronounceable holy name of God. Explore the special relationship between the in-dwelling God-presence called the Shechina (the divine feminine) and the transcendent Kadosh Baruch Hu (the divine masculine). Elevate modern and traditional energy techniques with kabbalistic symbolism and practice exercises for grounding, creating boundaries, connecting to the cosmos, sacred sex, and more. This illuminating book shows how to heal yourself, your relationships, and even the world. Praise: "This book should shine the light of Jewish mysticism out into the world and impact it for good."—Sarah Yehudit Schneider, author of Kabbalistic Writings on the Nature of Masculine and Feminine