Academic study of jewish mysticism, especially since gershom scholems major trends in jewish mysticism 1941, distinguishes between different forms of mysticism across different eras of jewish history. While many aspects of sonship have been analyzed in books on judaism, this book attempts to address the category of sonship in jewish mystical literature as a whole a category much more vast than it aims to point out the many instances where jewish thinkers resorted to concepts of sonship and their conceptual backgrounds. Mysticism, jewish mysticism, kabbalah, sonship, son of god, son of man. While many aspects of sonship have been analyzed in books on judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of sonship in jewish mystical literature as a whole a category much more vast than ever imagined. For more than three decades, in dozens of books and countless articles, he has rewritten the history of kabbalah, applying a. Moshe idel is the max cooper professor of jewish thought at the hebrew university and a senior researcher at the hartman institute. Though traces of jewish mystical traditions can be found from the late second temple period 536 bce 70 ce, most scholars begin their histories of jewish mysticism around the first century of the first millennium merkavah mysticism was the main strand of early jewish mysticism. Ben, his book on the concept of sonship in kabbalah, is an extraordinary work of scholarship and imaginative surmise. For more than three decades, in dozens of books and countless articles, he has rewritten the history of kabbalah, applying a bold variety of interpretive methodologies. By this survey, not only can the mystical forms of sonship in judaism be better understood, but the concept of sonship in religion in general can also be enriched. If an intellectual judaism is to survive, then idel. Ben sonship and jewish mysticism download ebook pdfepub.
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