Megalleh ʻamuqot
Subtitle: the Enoch-Meṭaṭron tradition in the Kabbalah of Nathan Neṭa Shapira of Kraków (1585-1633)
By: Agata Paluch
Series: Sources and studies in the literature of Jewish mysticism -- 43; Meḳorot u-meḥḳarim be-sifrut ha-ḳabalah -- sefer 43.
Publisher: Cherub Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781933379463
Subjects: Cabala; History and criticism; Mysticism; Judaism; History
Other titles: Enoch-Meṭaṭron tradition in the Kabbalah of Nathan Neṭa Shapira of Kraków
Description: "Nathan Neta ben Shlomo Shapira (1585-1633), the most famous kabbalist stemming from the Jewish intellectual environment of Poland, has remained one of the least studied figures in modern scholarship. Shapira is generally acknowledged as the most important early-modern Ashkenazi kabbalist, whose influence on later Eastern-European mystical circles is well attested. His major treatise, Megalleh ʻAmuqot, one the most complex kabbalistic texts ever written, combines variegated strata of older mystical traditions, to which the author applies diverse, often obscure modes of interpretation. In considering medieval Ashkenazi mysticism as Shapira's formative background, the book focuses on Enoch-Metatron cluster of traditions, which was as central to Shapira's thought as it was to his Ashkenazi predecessors. The Enoch-Metatron constellation of motifs serves as a vehicle for exploring Shapira's dependence on Ashkenazi imagery and interpretive methodologies, which he accessed through multiple channels of both direct and indirect transmission."--Back cover.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-213) and index.