Fishbane, Eitan P.,  1975- <br/><br/>
As light before dawn  the inner world of a medieval kabbalist /  [electronic resource] : 
Eitan P. Fishbane. 
 - Stanford, Calif. :  Stanford University Press,  c2009. 
 - 1 online resource (xi, 322 p.) 
 - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture .
 - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .
<br/><br/> Description based on print version record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references  (p. [285]-301) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804774871 (electronic bk.) 0804774870 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cabala--History--To 1500.<br/>Mysticism--Judaism--History--To 1500.<br/>Kabbala.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BM526  / .F57 2009eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>296.1/6