Mysticism and sacred Scripture
By: edited by Steven T. Katz.
Contributors: Katz, Steven T., 1944-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
Subjects: Mysticism; Sacred books
Description: Explores how the great mystics and mystical traditions use, interpret, and reconstruct the sacred scriptures of their traditions. -- from PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Mysticism and the interpretation of sacred scripture / Steven T. Katz; title: Mystical identity and scriptural justification / Shlomo Biderman; title: The Zohar as exegesis / Moshe Idel; title: The Book of Zohar and exegetical spirituality / Michael Fishbane; title: The fourfold sense of scripture in Christian mysticism / Ewert Cousins; title: Classical Sufi approaches to scripture / Peter Awn; title: Ibn al-ʻArabi's hermeneutics of mercy / William C. Chittick; title: Sacred scriptures and the mysticism of Advaita Vedānta / Arvind Sharma; title: Mystical cognition and canonical authority: the devotional mysticism of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa / Barbara A. Holdrege; title: Experiencing scriptural diversity: words and stories in Hindu tradition / Daniel Gold; title: Mysticism and scripture in Theravāda Buddhism / Ninian Smart; title: Tao, world, and mind: mystical adaptations of the Taoist classics / Livia Kohn.