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020			_a0300083793 (alk. paper)
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050	0	0	_aBM526 _b.I295 2002
082	0	0	_a296.1/6 _221
100	1		_aIdel, Moshe, _d1947- _910566
245	1	0	_aAbsorbing perfections : _bKabbalah and interpretation / _cMoshe Idel.
260			_aNew Haven : _bYale University Press, _cc2002.
300			_axvii, 668 p. : _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 493-645) and index.
505	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.
630	0	0	_aBible. _pPentateuch _xCriticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. _910567
650		0	_aCabala _xHistory. _910568
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