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A river flows from Eden : the language of mystical experience in the Zohar / Melila Hellner-Eshed ; translated from the Hebrew by Nathan Wolski.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Publication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 469 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780804776240
  • 0804776245
Uniform titles:
  • Ṿe-nahar yotse me-ʻEden. English
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: River flows from Eden.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/62 22
LOC classification:
  • BM525.A59 H4513 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Structure of This Book; Methodological and Personal Reflections; The Basic Structures of the Composition and Its Performative Aspects; The Internal Coherence of the Zohar's Language; Definitions of Mysticism; Overview of Zohar Research; Part I -- the Zohar's Heroes: Rabbi Shim'on bar Yohai and the Companions; 1. The Figure of Rabbi Shim'on bar Yohai; 2. The Companions of Rabbi Shim'on in Their Own Eyes; 3. "Happy is this generation": The Three Generations with Which the Zoharic Circle Identifies.
Summary: This book inquires into the wondrous and complex world of mystical experience in the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)344009

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-445) and indexes.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Structure of This Book; Methodological and Personal Reflections; The Basic Structures of the Composition and Its Performative Aspects; The Internal Coherence of the Zohar's Language; Definitions of Mysticism; Overview of Zohar Research; Part I -- the Zohar's Heroes: Rabbi Shim'on bar Yohai and the Companions; 1. The Figure of Rabbi Shim'on bar Yohai; 2. The Companions of Rabbi Shim'on in Their Own Eyes; 3. "Happy is this generation": The Three Generations with Which the Zoharic Circle Identifies.

This book inquires into the wondrous and complex world of mystical experience in the Zohar, the jewel in the crown of Jewish mystical literature.

Print version record.

English.