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Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah
- Title
- Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker.
- Author
- Hecker, Joel.
- Publication
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005.
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- Description
- x, 282 p.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.
- Contents
- Give heed to me, and you shall eat choice food : the religious significance of eating in Judaism from the Bible to the Kabbalah -- A blessing in the belly : mystical satiation -- The bread of angels : the role of idealized foods -- I am so glad to see the face of the Shekhinah! : the social aspects of meals -- Blessing does not rest on an empty place : talismanic theurgy -- He makes peace and increases peace between the supernal realm and the lower realm : augmentation theurgy at mystical meals.
- Call Number
- *PQG 06-1531
- ISBN
- 0814331815 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004017355
- OCLC
- 56033364
- Author
- Hecker, Joel.
- Title
- Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker.
- Imprint
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2005.
- Series
- Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-270) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- *PQG 06-1531