Concealment and revelation : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications / / Moshe Halbertal ; translated by Jackie Feldman.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Halbertal, Moshe.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English; Hebrew
• Physical Description: viii, 200 p.

Table of Contents

• 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.