LEADER 03973nam 22006014a 450 001 9910813754303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-73486-1 010 $a9786611734862 010 $a0-300-13507-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300135077 035 $a(CKB)1000000000473604 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022174747 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000096275 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11127839 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000096275 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10081422 035 $a(PQKB)11601219 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000167129 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420222 035 $a(DE-B1597)485265 035 $a(OCoLC)1013960618 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300135077 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420222 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10176368 035 $a(OCoLC)923590872 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000473604 100 $a20011030d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamediav 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAbsorbing perfections $eKabbalah and interpretation /$fMoshe Idel 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (xvii, 668 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-08379-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 493-645) and index. 327 $aThe world-absorbing text -- The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire -- Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah -- The book that contains and maintains all -- Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books -- Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism -- Secrecy, binah, and derishah -- Semantics, constellation, and interpretation -- Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics -- The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah -- Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah -- Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism -- Tradition, transmission, and techniques -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1. Pardes : the fourfold method of interpretation -- Appendix 2. Abraham Abulafia's Torah of blood and ink -- Appendix 3. R. Isaac of Acre's exegetical quandary -- Appendix 4. The exile of the Torah and the imprisonment of secrets -- Appendix 5. On oral Torah and multiple interpretations in Hasidism -- Appendix 6. "Book of God"/"book of law" in late-fifteenth-century Florence. 330 $aIn this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah-from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism-one of the world's foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel takes as a starting point the fact that the postbiblical Jewish world lost its geographical center with the destruction of the temple and so was left with a textual center, the Holy Book. Idel argues that a text-oriented religion produced language-centered forms of mysticism.Against this background, the author demonstrates how various Jewish mystics amplified the content of the Scriptures so as to include everything: the world, or God, for example. Thus the text becomes a major realm for contemplation, and the interpretation of the text frequently becomes an encounter with the deepest realms of reality. Idel delineates the particular hermeneutics belonging to Jewish mysticism, investigates the progressive filling of the text with secrets and hidden levels of meaning, and considers in detail the various interpretive strategies needed to decodify the arcane dimensions of the text. 606 $aCabala$xHistory 615 0$aCabala$xHistory. 676 $a296.1/6 700 $aIdel$b Moshe$f1947-$0223908 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813754303321 996 $aAbsorbing perfections$94097799 997 $aUNINA