Absorbing Perfections
Kabbalah and Interpretation
by Moshe Idel
"In 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 the methods used 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Absorbing Perfections
2008, Yale University Press
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Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation
May 1, 2002, Yale University Press
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In 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.
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