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

Publication Info.	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
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Description	1 online resource (xv, 469 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Note	"Originally published in Hebrew in 2005 under the title Ve-nahar yotzei me-Eden."
	תרגום של: ונהר יוצא מעדן.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-445) and indexes.
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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Subject	Zohar.
	Zohar.
	Zohar.
	Shimʻon ben Yoḥai.
	Zohar.
	Cabala.
	Cabala.
	Mysticism -- Judaism.
	Mysticism -- Judaism.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Wolski, Nathan.
Added Title	Ṿe-nahar yotse me-ʻEden. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009026619
Other Form:	Print version: Hellner-Eshed, Melila. Ṿe-nahar yotse me-ʻEden. English. River flows from Eden. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009 9780804759397 (DLC) 2009007193 (OCoLC)294935729
ISBN	9780804776240 (electronic book)
	0804776245 (electronic book)
	9780804759397
	0804759391

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

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