02074cam a22002894a 4500 12575088 OSt 20211006092227.0 011030s2002 ctu b 001 0 eng 2001006563 0300083793 (alk. paper) DLC HU DLC pcc BM526 .I295 2002 296.1/6 21 Idel, Moshe, 1947- 10566 Absorbing perfections : Kabbalah and interpretation / Moshe Idel. New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002. xvii, 668 p. : 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-645) and index. The 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. Bible. Pentateuch Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. 10567 Cabala History. 10568 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BOOKS 0 9812 9812 0 0 ddc 0 0 008 008 GEN 2021-10-06 0 296/IDE SHLIB 00001248 2021-10-06 00:00:00 1 2021-10-06 BOOKS 0 0 ddc 0 0 008 008 GEN 2021-10-06 0 296.16/IDE SHLIB 00001247 2021-10-06 00:00:00 2 2021-10-06 BOOKS