Concealment and revelation
Subtitle: esotericism and its paradoxes in Jewish tradition and political theory
By: Moshe Halbertal ; translated by Jackie Feldman.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780691125718
Subjects: Mysticism -- Judaism; Cabala -- History; Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789
Work titles: Seter ṿe-gilui.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone"; title: The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature; title: The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot; title: Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature; title: Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer; title: Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah; title: Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed; title: The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism; title: From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah; title: Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet; title: Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah; title: From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature; title: "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism; title: Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret; title: The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century; title: Esotericism, discontent and co-existence; title: Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion.