As light before dawn : the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / / Eitan P. Fishbane.
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| Superior document: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 322 p. |
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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.