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As light before dawn : the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / Eitan P. Fishbane.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culturePublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 322 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780804774871
  • 0804774870
  • 0804759138
  • 9780804759137
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: As light before dawn.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/6 22
LOC classification:
  • BM526 .F57 2009eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship -- The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority -- Intentions and the recovery of meaning -- Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God -- Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience -- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union.
Summary: This book explores a prominent medieval kabbalist's approach to prayer, meditative contemplation, and the transmission of mystical wisdom.
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
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)325239

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index.

pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship -- The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority -- Intentions and the recovery of meaning -- Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God -- Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience -- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union.

This book explores a prominent medieval kabbalist's approach to prayer, meditative contemplation, and the transmission of mystical wisdom.

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