03213nam a2200457Ia 4500 ocn438753891 OCoLC 20200709055226.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 090924s2007 nju sb 001 0 eng d N$T N$T 9781400827961 (electronic bk.) 1400827965 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)438753891 286827 (N$T) eng heb BM526 .H34513 2007eb 296.7/12 22 N$TA Halbertal, Moshe. Seter ṿe-gilui. English Concealment and revelation [electronic resource] : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications / Moshe Halbertal ; translated by Jackie Feldman. Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. viii, 200 p. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone" -- The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature -- The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot -- Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature -- Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer -- Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah -- Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed -- The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism -- From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah -- Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet -- Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah -- From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature -- "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism -- Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret -- The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century -- Esotericism, discontent and co-existence -- Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion. Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Mysticism Judaism. Cabala History. Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789. Mystiek. gtt Esoterisme. gtt Jodendom. gtt Electronic books. local NetLibrary, Inc. Original 9780691125718 0691125716 (DLC) 2007001212 (OCoLC)79860153 Bibliographic record display http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=286827 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information cpp3165 02 N$T 49599 49599