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Concealment and revelation esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications

Title
Concealment and revelation [electronic resource] : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications / Moshe Halbertal ; translated by Jackie Feldman.
Author
Halbertal, Moshe.
Publication
Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.

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Description
1 online resource (viii, 200 p.)
Uniform Title
Seter ṿe-gilui. English (Online)
Alternative Title
Seter ṿe-gilui.
Subject
  • Mysticism > Judaism
  • Cabala > History
  • Judaism > History > Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone" -- The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature -- The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot -- Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature -- Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer -- Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah -- Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed -- The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism -- From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah -- Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet -- Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah -- From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature -- "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism -- Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret -- The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century -- Esotericism, discontent and co-existence -- Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion.
LCCN
2007001212
OCLC
ssj0000128125
Author
Halbertal, Moshe.
Title
Concealment and revelation [electronic resource] : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications / Moshe Halbertal ; translated by Jackie Feldman.
Imprint
Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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