As light before dawn [electronic resource] : the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / Eitan P. Fishbane.
Fishbane, Eitan P., 1975-
2009
BM526 .F57 2009eb
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Title As light before dawn [electronic resource] : the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / Eitan P. Fishbane.
Author Fishbane, Eitan P., 1975-
ISBN 9780804759137 (cloth : alk. paper)
Publication Details Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xi, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number BM526 .F57 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 296.1/6
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.
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Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship
The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority
Intentions and the recovery of meaning
Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God
Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience
Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union.

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