TY  - BOOK
AU  - Idel,Moshe
TI  - Absorbing perfections: Kabbalah and interpretation 
SN  - 0300083793 (alk. paper)
AV  - BM526 .I295 2002
U1  - 296.1/6 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Bible
KW  - Pentateuch
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
KW  - Cabala
KW  - History
N1  - 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
ER  -