Keter : the crown of God in early Jewish mysticism /

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green draws a wide arc including Talmudic, Midrashic,...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Green, Arthur, 1941- (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press [1997]
Cyfres:Princeton legacy library
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7zvhbv
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • CHAPTER ONE. Ancient Israel: Crowns Above and Below
  • CHAPTER TWO. Coronation and Qedushah
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Heavenly Coronation: Primary Texts
  • CHAPTER FOUR. God's Crown and Israel's Prayer
  • CHAPTER FIVE. The Name on the Crown
  • CHAPTER SIX. Crowns, Tefillin, and Magic Seals
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. The Angels Crowned
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Israel Crowned at Sinai
  • CHAPTER NINE. Coronation and Marriage
  • CHAPTER TEN. Medieval Reconsiderations
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Hymn of Glory
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. The Way to Kabbalah
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Sefer ha-Bahir
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Early Kabbalah
  • APPENDIX. Original Texts of Principal Primary Source Citations
  • Bibliography
  • Selective Index of Texts
  • General Index.