Suckling at my mother's breasts
Subtitle: the image of a nursing God in Jewish mysticism
By: Ellen Davina Haskell
Series: SUNY series in Western esoteric traditions
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781438443812
Subjects: Rabbinical literature; Judaism; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Bible; Mysticism; Love; Cabala; God (Judaism); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Hebrew and Aramaic transliterations; title: Introduction: kabbalistic images, relationality, and a breastfeeding God; title: Chapt. I. Breastfeeding and religious transmission in rabbinic literature; title: Chapt. II. suckling the divine overflow in early kabbalah; title: Chapt. III. God as a nursing mother in Sefer ha-Zohar; title: Chapt. IV. Concluding thoughts on the nursing divine.