| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 322 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-301) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre.
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Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre. |
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Cabala -- History -- To 1500.
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Cabala. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Mysticism -- Judaism -- History -- To 1500.
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Mysticism -- Judaism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fishbane, Eitan P., 1975- As light before dawn. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2009 9780804759137 (DLC) 2009010151 (OCoLC)294935735 |
| ISBN |
9780804774871 (electronic book) |
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0804774870 (electronic book) |
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0804759138 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804759137 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780804759137 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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