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1	Kabbalah: New Perspectives more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist In this prizewinning new interpretation of Jewish mysticism, Moshe Idel emphasizes the need for a comparative and phenomenological approach to Kabbalah and its position in the history of religion. Idel provides fresh insights into the origins of Jewish mysticism, the relation between mystical and historical experience, and the impact of Jewish ... see all copies from $5.48! new only from $27.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist 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. Idel's aim is to point out the many instances where Jewish thinkers, especially the mystics among them, resorted to ... see all copies from $23.00! new only from $23.00! \| SVS
3	Mystical Union in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: An Ecumenical Dialogue more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel (Editor), Bernard McGinn (Editor) add to wishlist A dialogical assessment of mystical experience in the three Abrahamic faiths, moderated by Louis Dupre with the participation of the editors and Michael Sells, a specialist on Islam, and Daniel Merkur, a psychoanalyst. see all copies from $4.88! new only from $58.50!
4	Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism: Pillars, Lines, Ladders more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders. After surveying the variety of scholarly approaches to ... see all copies from $18.71! new only from $27.79! \| SVS
5	The Early Kabbalah more books like this by Ronald C Kiener (Editor), Joseph Dan (Editor), Professor Moshe Idel (Designer) add to wishlist The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted! In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions have been critically selected, translated and introduced by internationally recognized scholars ... see all copies from $4.20! new only from $14.76! \| SVS
6	Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist see all copies from $14.54! new only from $26.05! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel, Professor Harold Bloom (Foreword by) add to wishlist In this discussion of Kabbalah - from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism - Moshe Idel considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. He takes as a starting point the fact that the post-biblical Jewish world lost its geographical centre with the destruction of the temple and ... see all copies from $31.97! new only from $57.25! \| SVS
8	Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society more books like this by Betty Rojtman, Steven Rendall (Translator), Professor Moshe Idel (Preface by) add to wishlist Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, Betty Rojtman unveils a modernity in these early forms of textual interpretation. The metaphor from rabbinic literature that describes the writing of the Torah - black fire on white fire - becomes, in Rojtman's analysis, a ... see all copies from $9.46! new only from $9.46! \| SVS
9	Kabbalah and Eros more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist In this book, the world's foremost scholar of Kabbalah explores the understanding of erotic love in Jewish mystical thought. Encompassing Jewish mystical literatures from those of late antiquity to works of Polish Hasidism, Moshe Idel highlights the diversity of Kabbalistic views on eros and distinguishes between the major forms of eroticism. The ... see all copies from $35.64! new only from $35.64! \| SVS
10	Inventing the Jew: Antisemitic Stereotypes in Romanian and Other Central-East European Cultures more books like this by Andrei Oisteanu, Mirela Adascalitei (Translator), Professor Moshe Idel (Foreword by) add to wishlist "Inventing the Jew" follows the evolution of stereotypes of Jews from the level of traditional Romanian and other Central-East European cultures (legends, fairy tales, ballads, carols, anecdotes, superstitions, and iconographic representations) to that of 'high' cultures (literature, essays, press writings, and socio-political literature), showing ... see all copies from $34.50! new only from $66.23! \| SVS
11 view cover	Studies Ecstatic Kabbala more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist see all copies from $19.95! new only from $22.44! \| SVS
12	Mystical Union & Monotheistic Faith: An Ecumenical Dialogue more books like this by Bernard McGinn (Editor), Professor Moshe Idel (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $29.00! first editions
13 view cover	Hasidism more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist Author Idel draws upon his own masterful command of the broad sweep of Jewish sources to present a comprehensive survey of the origins of Hasidism. He examines the entire cluster of ideas and influences affecting a small group of 18th-century European Jews who first sought the guidance of Israel ben Eliezer, known to them as the Baal Shem Tov. In ... see all copies from $91.78!
14 view cover	Cabala - Nuevas Perspectivas more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist see all copies from $42.69! new only from $42.69!
15	Emsayos Sobre Cabala y Misticismo Judio more books like this by Yom Tov Assis, Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist see all copies from $47.27! new only from $47.27!
16 view cover	Jewish Mystical Leaders & Lead more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel, J N Hillgarth, Paul Fenton add to wishlist Individual essays by distinguished scholars. see all copies from $41.03! new only from $41.03! \| SVS
17	Abraham Abulafia: An Ecstatic Kabbalist [Two Studies] more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist see all copies from $175.20! new only from $188.13!
18	Enchanted Chains: Techniques and Rituals in Jewish Mysticism more books like this by Professor Moshe Idel add to wishlist see all copies from $80.60!

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