@article{1367272,
      recid = {1367272},
      author = {Afterman, Adam,},
      title = {"And they shall be one flesh" : on the language of  mystical union in Judaism /},
      pages = {1 online resource (289 pages)},
      abstract = {"In "And They Shall Be One Flesh: On the Language of  Mystical Union in Judaism", Adam Afterman offers for the  first time an extensive study of mystical union and  embodiment in Judaism. Afterman argues that Philo was the  first to articulate the notion of unio mystica in Judaism  and in monotheism and is the source of the henōsis  mysticism in the later Neoplatonic tradition. The study  provides a detailed analysis of the Jewish medieval trends  that developed different forms of mystical union and  mystical embodiment through the Holy Spirit. The book  argues that the development of unitive mysticism in Judaism  is the fruit of substantial moments of openness, not only  to Greek and Arab philosophy but also to Islam and  Christianity"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1367272},
}