TY  - GEN
T1  - Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation
A1  - Idel, Moshe, 1947-
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn182530619
AB  - In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah - from the mystical trends of mediaeval Judaism to modern Hasidism - this book considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. It takes as a starting point the fact that the post-biblical Jewish world lost its geographical centre with the destruction of the temple and so was left with a textual centre, the Holy Book. The author argues that a text-oriented religion produced language-centred forms of mysticism. Against this background, he demonstrates how various Jewish mystics amplified the content of the Scriptures so as to include everything: the world, or God, for example.
OP  - 668
CN  - BM526 .I295 2002eb
SN  - 9780300135077
SN  - 0300135076
SN  - 1281734861
SN  - 9781281734860
SN  - 0300083793
SN  - 9780300083798
KW  - Bible. : Pentateuch : Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
KW  - Bible : A.T. : Pentateuque : Critique, interprétation, etc. juives.
KW  - Bible. : Pentateuch
KW  - Cabala : History.
KW  - Kabbale : Histoire.
KW  - RELIGION : Judaism : Kabbalah & Mysticism.
KW  - RELIGION : Judaism : Sacred Writings.
KW  - Cabala
KW  - Jodendom.
KW  - Mystiek.
KW  - Kabbala.
KW  - History
ER  -