Cultic and further orders : : semiotics of a Kabbalistic culture / / by Maurizio Mottolese.

• Superior document: Studies in Jewish history and culture
• VerfasserIn: Mottolese, Maurizio,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 pages)
• Notes: Through an unusual investigation of kabbalistic commentaries on prayer and ritual from the viewpoint of cultural semiotics, this book attempts to illuminate the features of a lasting Jewish tradition, showing in particular the relevance of ordering structures in Sephardi Kabbalah.

This book starts from the assumption that semiotics of culture and social-anthropological studies can offer useful tools to understand large segments and lasting aspects of the kabbalistic tradition. It attempts to study from this perspective the Sephardi Kabbalah, by examining 16th-century emblematic commentaries that collect, rearrange and carry on the earlier kabbalistic interpretation of the rabbinic ritual system. In this unusual light, much kabbalistic culture appears as an ongoing semiotic intensification of deep structures governing the discourse and practice of the Jews – so that, for instance, institutional cultic orders are integrated by other forms of order in imagination, thought, writing and experience.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Maurizio Mottolese -- Copyright page / Maurizio Mottolese -- Dedication / Maurizio Mottolese -- Acknowledgments / Maurizio Mottolese -- Introduction / Maurizio Mottolese -- Chapter 1 The Disclosure of Sense and Order / Maurizio Mottolese -- Chapter 2 The Imagery of Cosmic and Human Orders / Maurizio Mottolese -- Chapter 3 The Focus on Ritual Sequences / Maurizio Mottolese -- Chapter 4 The Construction of a Liturgical-Mystical Discipline / Maurizio Mottolese -- Final Remarks Kabbalistic Orders from the Perspective of Cultural Semiotics / Maurizio Mottolese -- Bibliography / Maurizio Mottolese -- Index / Maurizio Mottolese.