Through a Speculum That Shines : : Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism /

Through a Speculum That Shines : : Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism / / Elliot R. Wolfson.

A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using phenomenological and critical historical tools, Wolfso...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Wolfson, Elliot R.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©1994
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (464 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE. "Israel: The One Who Sees God"—Visualization of God in Biblical, Apocalyptic, and Rabbinic Sources
  • CHAPTER TWO. Vision of God in Mystical Sources: A Typological Analysis
  • CHAPTER THREE. Visionary Ascent and Enthronement in the Hekhalot Literature
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Theories of the Glory and Visionary Experience in Pre-Kabbalistic Sources
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Haside Ashkenaz: Veridical and Docetic Interpretations of the Chariot Vision
  • CHAPTER SIX. Visionary Gnosis and the Role of the Imagination in Theosophic Kabbalah
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Hermeneutics of Visionary Experience: Revelation and Interpretation in the Zohar
  • CONCLUSION
  • APPENDIX. Manuscripts Cited
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY SOURCES CITED
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SECONDARY SOURCES CITED
  • INDEX

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