02276nam a22003014a 4500 ebr10176368 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 011030s2002 ctu sb 001 0 eng 0300083793 (alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)182530619 BM526 .I295 2002eb 296.1/6 21 Idel, Moshe, 1947- Absorbing perfections [electronic resource] : Kabbalah and interpretation / Moshe Idel. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002. xvii, 668 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-645) and index. The 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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Bible. O.T. Pentateuch Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. Cabala History. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10176368 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 237577 237577