As light before dawn
the inner world of a medieval kabbalist
Fishbane, Eitan P.
1975-
creator
text
bibliography
biography
Electronic books.
cau
Stanford, Calif
Stanford University Press
c2009
2009
monographic
eng
1 online resource (xi, 322 p.)
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.
Eitan P. Fishbane.
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.
of Acre
Isaac ben Samuel
Cabala
History
To 1500
Mysticism
Judaism
History
To 1500
Kabbala
BM526 .F57 2009eb
296.1/6
As light before dawn
Fishbane, Eitan P., 1975-
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009
(DLC) 2009010151
(OCoLC)294935735
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
9780804774871 (electronic bk.)
0804774870 (electronic bk.)
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