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As light before dawn [electronic resource] : the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / Eitan P. Fishbane.

By: Series: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culturePublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 322 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780804774871 (electronic bk.)
  • 0804774870 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: As light before dawn.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/6 22
LOC classification:
  • BM526 .F57 2009eb
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.

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.

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