02245nam a22002894a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054020002800095040002100123035002100144050002400165082001600189100002400205245009500229260004800324300001700372504006400389505108600453533015201539630007101691650002101762655002901783710001701812856012601829ebr10176368CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||011030s2002    ctu     sb    001 0 eng    z0300083793 (alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)18253061914aBM526b.I295 2002eb04a296.1/62211 aIdel, Moshe,d1947-10aAbsorbing perfectionsh[electronic resource] :bKabbalah and interpretation /cMoshe Idel.  aNew Haven :bYale University Press,cc2002.  axvii, 668 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 493-645) and index.0 aThe world-absorbing text -- The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire -- Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah -- The book that contains and maintains all -- Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books -- Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism -- Secrecy, binah, and derishah -- Semantics, constellation, and interpretation -- Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics -- The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah -- Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah -- Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism -- Tradition, transmission, and techniques -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1. Pardes : the fourfold method of interpretation -- Appendix 2.  Abraham Abulafia's Torah of blood and ink -- Appendix 3. R. Isaac of Acre's exegetical quandary -- Appendix 4. The exile of the Torah and the imprisonment of secrets -- Appendix 5. On oral Torah and multiple interpretations in Hasidism -- Appendix 6. "Book of God"/"book of law" in late-fifteenth-century Florence.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.00aBible.pO.T.pPentateuchxCriticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. 0aCabalaxHistory. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10176368zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view