"And They Shall Be One Flesh" on the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32872-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

Reihe: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

In “And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism, Adam Afterman offers an extensive study of mystical union and embodiment in Judaism. Afterman argues that Philo was the first to articulate the notion of unio mystica in Judaism and is the source of the henosis mysticism in the later Neoplatonic tradition. The study provides a detailed analysis of the Jewish medieval trends that developed different forms of mystical union and mystical embodiment through the divine name and spirit. The book argues that the development of unitive mysticism in Judaism is the fruit of the creative synthesis of rabbinic Judaism and Hellenistic and Arab philosophy, and a natural outcome of the theological articulation of the idea of monotheism itself.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Afterman, Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: From Philo to Plotinus: The Emergence of Mystical Union
Chapter 3: Unio Mystica and Ancient Jewish Mysticism
Chapter 4: Platonic and Aristotelian Traditions of Union
Chapter 5: “As Light Unites With Light”: The Language of Union in Jewish Neo-Platonism.
Chapter 6: The Language of Union in the Writings of Moses Maimonides and Moses Nachmanides
Chapter 7: Mystical Union in Early Kabbalah
Chapter 8: Mystical Union in the Ecstatic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia
Chapter 9: Language and Images of Mystical Union in the Kabbalah of R. Isaac of Acre
Chapter 10: “Single Unification, Single Bond”: The Language of Union and Unity in the Zohar
Chapter 11: From Kabbalah to the Renaissance and Hasidism: A Brief Overview
Chapter 12: Concluding Remarks
Primary Sources
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Adam Afterman, Ph.D. (2008), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is Associate Professor in Jewish Mysticism and Philosophy and Acting Chair of the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud at Tel Aviv University. He has authored studies on Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism and medieval Jewish philosophy.