"And they shall be one flesh" : : on the language of mystical union in Judaism / / by Adam Afterman.

"In "And They Shall Be One Flesh: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism", Adam Afterman offers for the first time an extensive study of mystical union and embodiment in Judaism. Afterman argues that Philo was the first to articulate the notion of unio mystica in Judaism and in...

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Superior document:Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, volume 26
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016]
2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; volume 26.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (289 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. From Philo to Plotinus: the emergence of mystical union
  • 3. Unio mystica and ancient Jewish mysticism
  • 4. Platonic and Aristotelian traditions of union
  • 5. "As light unites with light": the language of union in Jewish Neoplatonism
  • 6. The language of union in the writings of Moses Maimonides and Moses Nachmanides
  • 7. Mystical union in early kabbalah
  • 8. Mystical union in the ecstatic kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia
  • 9. Language and images of mystical union in the kabbalah of R. Isaac of Acre
  • 10. "Single unification, single bond": the language of union and unity in the Zohar
  • 11. From kabbalah to the Renaissance and Hasidism: a brief overview.