01828cam a22002414a 450000100090000000300040000900500170001300800410003001000170007102000280008804000170011604200080013305000220014108200160016310000240017924500720020326000480027530000270032350400640035050510860041463000650150065000210156512575088OSt20211006092227.0011030s2002    ctu      b    001 0 eng    a  2001006563  a0300083793 (alk. paper)  aDLCcHUdDLC  apcc00aBM526b.I295 200200a296.1/62211 aIdel, Moshe,d1947-10aAbsorbing perfections :bKabbalah and interpretation /cMoshe Idel.  aNew Haven :bYale University Press,cc2002.  axvii, 668 p. :c24 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 493-645) and index.0 aThe world-absorbing text -- The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire -- Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah -- The book that contains and maintains all -- Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books -- Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism -- Secrecy, binah, and derishah -- Semantics, constellation, and interpretation -- Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics -- The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah -- Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah -- Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism -- Tradition, transmission, and techniques -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix 1. Pardes : the fourfold method of interpretation -- Appendix 2.  Abraham Abulafia's Torah of blood and ink -- Appendix 3. R. Isaac of Acre's exegetical quandary -- Appendix 4. The exile of the Torah and the imprisonment of secrets -- Appendix 5. On oral Torah and multiple interpretations in Hasidism -- Appendix 6. "Book of God"/"book of law" in late-fifteenth-century Florence.00aBible.pPentateuchxCriticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. 0aCabalaxHistory.