Concealment and Revelation : : Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications /

Concealment and Revelation : : Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications / / Moshe Halbertal.

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During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their particular understanding revealed the actual secret of the Torah. They presented their own readings in a cod...

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Halbertal, Moshe,
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Feldman, Jackie.
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2008
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Editions Used
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. The Paradox of Esotericism: "And Not on the Chariot Alone"
  • Chapter 2. The Hidden and the Sublime: Vision and Restriction in the Bible and in Talmudic Literature
  • Chapter 3. The Ethics of Gazing: The Attitude of Early Jewish Mysticism Toward Seeing the Chariot
  • Chapter 4. Concealment and Power: Magic and Esotericism in the Hekhalot Literature
  • Chapter 5. Esotericism and Commentary: Ibn Ezra and the Exegetical Layer
  • Chapter 6. Concealment and Heresy: Astrology and the Secret of the Torah
  • Chapter 7. Double Language and the Divided Public in Guide of the Perplexed
  • Chapter 8. The Breaching of the Limits of the Esoteric: Concealment and Disclosure in Maimonidean Esotericism
  • Chapter 9. From Transmission to Writing: Hinting, Leaking, and Orthodoxy in Early Kabbalah
  • Chapter 10. Open Knowledge and Closed Knowledge: The Kabbalists of Gerona-Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Ya'akov bar Sheshet
  • Chapter 11. Tradition, Closed Knowledge, and the Esoteric: Secrecy and Hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah
  • Chapter 12. From Tradition to Literature: Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the Critique of Kabbalistic Literature
  • Chapter 13. "The Widening of the Apertures of the Showpiece": Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the End of the Era of Esotericism
  • Chapter 14. Esotericism, Sermons, and Curricula: Ya'akov Anatoli and the Dissemination of the Secret
  • Chapter 15. The Ambivalence of Secrecy: The Dispute over Philosophy in the Early Fourteenth Century
  • Chapter 16. Esotericism, Discontent, and Co-Existence
  • Chapter 17. Taxonomy and Paradoxes of Esotericism: Conceptual Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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