Essays in honor of Moshe Idel
By: Sandu Frunză, Mihaela Frunză (editors)
Series: Colecţia Alef
Publisher: Provo Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cluj-Napoca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9789738889217
Subjects: Cabala; Judaism; Jewish philosophy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Spiritual transformations of Torah in biblical and rabbinic tradition / Michael Fishbane; title: Moshe Idel's contribution to the study of religion / Jonathan Garb; title: A critical return to Moshe Idel's Kabbalah: new perspectives: an appreciation / Daniel Abrams; title: Moshe Idel's phenomenology and its sources / Ron Margolin; title: Letter permutation techniques, kavannah and prayer in Jewish mysticism / Adam Afterman; title: Edenic paradise and paradisal eden. Moshe Idel's reading of the Talmudic Legend of the Four Sages Who Entered the Pardes / Felicia Waldman; title: Idel on Spinoza / Warren Zev Harvey; title: Zohar and lamblichus / Yehuda Liebes; title: Between Sefer Yezirah and wisdom literature: three Binitarian approaches in Sefer Yezirah / Ronit Meroz; title: Structure, innovation, and diremptive temporality: the use of models to study continuity and discontinuity in Kabbalistic tradition / Elliot R. Wolfson; title: How does one become a Jewish philosopher? Reflections on a canonical status / Michael Zank; title: Aspects of the connection between Judaism and Christianity in Franz Rosenzweig's philosophy / Sandu Frunză; title: Mystical Jewish sociology / Philip Wexler; title: The metaphor of the book. The Hebrew book and its preception in the Jewish communities of North Transylvania / Maria Radosav; title: Moshe Idel, the book and hermeneutics of negative / Cristina Gavrilut̜ă; title: Moshe Idel, ascension on high in Jewish mysticism: pillars, lines, ladders / Michaela Mudure; title: Moshe Idel, Maimonides and the Jewish mysticism / Nicolae Luga.