As light before dawn
Fishbane, Eitan P., 1975-
As light before dawn the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / [electronic resource] : Eitan P. Fishbane. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009. - xi, 322 p. - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture . - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.
pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship -- The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority -- Intentions and the recovery of meaning -- Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God -- Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience -- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre.
Cabala--History--To 1500.
Mysticism--Judaism--History--To 1500.
Electronic books.
BM526 / .F57 2009eb
296.1/6
As light before dawn the inner world of a medieval kabbalist / [electronic resource] : Eitan P. Fishbane. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009. - xi, 322 p. - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture . - Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.
pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship -- The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority -- Intentions and the recovery of meaning -- Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God -- Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience -- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre.
Cabala--History--To 1500.
Mysticism--Judaism--History--To 1500.
Electronic books.
BM526 / .F57 2009eb
296.1/6