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Renowned as one of the world's most astute interpreters of Kabbalistic texts, Elliot Wolfson offers an illuminating and original presentation of Kabbalah. Combining its wisdom with Western philosophical heritage from Plato to Heidegger and beyond, synergy guides his elucidation of the fundamentals of Jewish mysticism and shapes his taxonomy of Kabbalistic thought.
An insightful collection of seminal essays written between 1986 and 1998, Luminal Darkness reveals the unmistakably poetic nature of this important scholar's creative process, and delineates the evolution of his thinking on the role and importance of the Zohar in Kabbalistic tradition.
An insightful collection of seminal essays written between 1986 and 1998, Luminal Darkness reveals the unmistakably poetic nature of this important scholar's creative process, and delineates the evolution of his thinking on the role and importance of the Zohar in Kabbalistic tradition.
Additional Information
| Subject | Religion |
|---|---|
| Pages | 320 |
| Imprint | Oneworld Academic |
Reviews
"Wolfson offers an illuminating and original presentation of Kabbalah. Combining its wisdom with Western philosophical heritage from Plato to Heidegger and beyond, synergy guides his elucidation of the fundementals of Jewish mysticism and shapes his taxonomy of Kabbalistic thought."
Table of Contents
ContentsForeword ix
Introduction xiii
1. Left Contained in the Right: A Study in Zoharic
Hermeneutics 1
2. Light through Darkness: The Ideal of Human
Perfection in the Zohar 29
3. Beautiful Maiden without Eyes: Peshat. and Sod in
Zoharic Hermeneutics 56
4. Forms of Visionary Ascent as Ecstatic Experience
in the Zoharic Literature 111
5. Coronation of the Sabbath Bride: Kabbalistic
Myth and the Ritual of Androgynization 144
6. Re/membering the Covenant:Memory,
Forgetfulness, and the Construction of
History in the Zohar 185
7. Fore/giveness on the Way:Nesting in the Womb
of Response 228
8. Occultation of the Feminine and the Body of
Secrecy in Medieval Kabbalah 258
Index 295
