Research Catalog

Title

Ascensions on high in Jewish mysticism : pillars, lines, ladders / Moshe Idel.

Author

Idel, Moshe, 1947-

Publication

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2005.

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Description

x, 249 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Ascensions on High took on many forms in Jewish mysticism and permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders." "After surveying the variety of scholarly approaches to religion, the author also offers what he proposes as an eclectic approach, as well as a perspectivist one. The latter seeks to examine religious phenomena from a variety of perspectives. In the specific case of this book, the author interrogates the issue of the pillar in Jewish mysticism by comparing it to the archaic resort to pillars, recurring in rural societies."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Pasts incorporated ; v. 2

Uniform Title

• Pasts incorporated ; v. 2.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Ascension of the soul
• Cabala > History
• Columns > Judaism
• Hasidism
• Mysticism > Judaism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

On diverse forms of living ascent on high in Jewish sources -- On cosmic pillars in Jewish sources -- The eschatological pillar of the souls in zoharic literature -- Psychanodia and metamorphoses of pillars in eighteenth-century Hasidism -- The neoplatonic path for dead souls : medieval philosophy, Kabbalah and renaissance.

ISBN

• 9637326022 (hardbound)
• 9637326030 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004028552

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library