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As light before dawn : the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / Eitan P. Fishbane.
LIBRA BM526 .F57 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fishbane, Eitan P., 1975-
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre.
- Isaac ben Samuel.
- Cabala--History--To 1500.
- Cabala.
- Mysticism--Judaism--History--To 1500.
- Mysticism.
- Mysticism--Judaism.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 322 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions: reflections on the state of scholarship
- The wandering kabbalist: historical profile and context
- pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority
- Intentions and the recovery of meaning
- Seeing the secret: creative process and the hermeneutics of insight
- pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God
- Techniques of mystical contemplation: kavvanah and devotional experience
- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780804759137
- 0804759138
- OCLC:
- 294935735
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