Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia
Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia

Author: Moshe Idel

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1988-12-20

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780887068324

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Abraham Abulafia, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah, exposed a mysticism that includes a deep interest in language as a universe in itself, to be studied as the philosophers study nature, in order to attain higher knowledge than natural science and speculative philosophy. The status of Hebrew as the natural, intellectual, and primordial language is discussed against the background of the medieval speculations regarding this topic.

Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism
Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism

Author: Moshe Idel

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-10-12

Total Pages: 636

ISBN-13: 3110598779

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This book focuses on Abraham Abulafia's esoteric thought in relation to Maimonides, Maimonideans, and Islamic thought in the line of Leo Strauss' theory of the history of philosophy. A survey of Abulafia's sources leads into an analysis of the esoteric meaning on the famous parable of the three rings, considering also the possible connection between this parable, which Abdulafia inserted into a book dedicated to his student, the 13th century rabbi Nathan the wise, and the Lessing's Play "Nathan the Wise." The book also examines Abulafia's universalistic understanding of the nature of the Bible, the Hebrew language, and the people of Israel (or the Sinaic revelation). The universal aspects of Abulafia’s thought have been put in relief against the more widespread Kabbalistic views which are predominantly particularistic. A number of texts have also been identified here for the first time as authored by Abulafia.

The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia
The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia

Author: Moshe Idel

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1438407459

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This book represents the first wide-scale presentation of a major Jewish mystic, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes a description of the techniques employed by his master, including the role of music. There is a discussion of the characteristics of his mystical experience and the erotic imagery by which it was expressed. Based on all the extant manuscript material of Abulafia, this book opens the way to a new understanding of Jewish mysticism. It points to the importance of the ecstatic Kabbalah for the later developments in mystical Judaism.

Veda and Torah
Veda and Torah

Author: Barbara A. Holdrege

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 784

ISBN-13: 1438406959

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Enlarges our understanding of the term "scripture" through a comparative study of Veda and Torah.

Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism
Perspectives on Jewish Thought and Mysticism

Author: Alfred L. Ivry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-28

Total Pages: 548

ISBN-13: 1136650121

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First Published in 1998. This is the proceedings of the International Conference held by The Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, 1994, in Celebration of its Fortieth Anniversary. Dedicated to the memory and academic legacy of its Founder Alexander Altmann.

Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Science in Medieval Jewish Cultures

Author: Gad Freudenthal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 1107001455

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Provides the first comprehensive overview by world-renowned experts of what we know today of medieval Jews' engagement with the sciences.

Old Worlds, New Mirrors
Old Worlds, New Mirrors

Author: Moshe Idel

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0812241304

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In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.

Jerome Rothenberg's Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition
Jerome Rothenberg's Experimental Poetry and Jewish Tradition

Author: Christine A. Meilicke

Publisher: Lehigh University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780934223768

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"On a more specific level, this book analyses Rothenberg's use of postmodern "appropriative strategies," such as collage, assemblage, palimpsest, parody, pastiche, forgery, found poetry, and theft. These strategies illustrate the concept, practice, and problematics of appropriation." "Embracing postmodern experimentation and drawing on heterodox Jewish sources, Rothenberg constructs a contemporary American Jewish identity that does not rely on institutionalized Judaism."--Jacket.

Judeities
Judeities

Author: Bettina Bergo

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0823226433

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Invited to answer questions about his relationship to Judaism, Jacques Derrida spoke through Franz Kafka: As for myself, I could imagine another Abraham.He explores the movement between growing up Jewish, becoming Jewish,and Jewish beingor existence. In his essay The Other Abraham,which appears here in English for the first time, he imagines other Abrahams in light of the proclaimed universalism of philosophy and its recent fragmentation into philosophemes.Thus we no longer confront Judaismbut Judeity,multiple Judaisms and Jewish existences, manifold ways of being and writing as a Jew--in Derrida's case, as a French-speaking Algerian deprived of, then restored to French nationality in the 1940s.Contributions contrast Derrida's thought with philosophical predecessors such as Rosenzweig, Levinas, Celan, and Scholem, and trace confluences between deconstruction and Kabbalah. Derrida's relationship to the universalist aspirations in contemporary theology is also discussed, and an evaluation is offered of his late autobiographical writings.

A River Flows from Eden
A River Flows from Eden

Author: Melila Hellner-Eshed

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2009-06-29

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 0804776245

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In the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature, the verse "A river flows from Eden to water the garden" (Genesis 2:10) symbolizes the river of divine plenty that unceasingly flows from the depths of divinity into the garden of reality. Hellner-Eshed's book investigates the flow of this river in the world of the Zoharic heroes, Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai and his disciples, as they embark upon their wondrous spiritual adventures. By focusing on the Zohar's language of mystical experience and its unique features, the author is able to provide remarkable scholarly insight into the mystical dimensions of the Zohar, namely the human quest for an enhanced experience of the living presence of the divine and the Zohar's great call to awaken human consciousness.