Halbertal Concealment and Revelation

Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2796-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Halbertal, Moshe

Weitere Mitwirkende

Feldman, Jackie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
A Note on Editions Used xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1: The Paradox of Esotericism: "And Not on the Chariot Alone" 8
Chapter 2: The Hidden and the Sublime: Vision and Restriction in the Bible and in Talmudic Literature 13
Chapter 3: The Ethics of Gazing: The Attitude of Early Jewish Mysticism Toward Seeing the Chariot 18
Chapter 4: Concealment and Power: Magic and Esotericism in the Hekhalot Literature 28
Chapter 5: Esotericism and Commentary: Ibn Ezra and the Exegetical Layer 34
Chapter 6: Concealment and Heresy: Astrology and the Secret of the Torah 44
Chapter 7: Double Language and the Divided Public in Guide of the Perplexed 49
Chapter 8: The Breaching of the Limits of the Esoteric: Concealment and Disclosure in Maimonidean Esotericism 60
Chapter 9: From Transmission to Writing: Hinting, Leaking, and Orthodoxy in Early Kabbalah 69
Chapter 10: Open Knowledge and Closed Knowledge: The Kabbalists of Gerona-Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Ya'akov bar Sheshet 77
Chapter 11: Tradition, Closed Knowledge, and the Esoteric: Secrecy and Hinting in Nahmanides’ Kabbalah 83
Chapter 12: From Tradition to Literature: Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the Critique of Kabbalistic Literature 93
Chapter 13: "The Widening of the Apertures of the Showpiece": Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the End of the Era of Esotericism 105
Chapter 14: Esotericism, Sermons, and Curricula: Ya'akov Anatoli and the Dissemination of the Secret 114
Chapter 15: The Ambivalence of Secrecy: The Dispute over Philosophy in the Early Fourteenth Century 120
Chapter 16: Esotericism, Discontent, and Co-Existence 135
Chapter 17: Taxonomy and Paradoxes of Esotericism: Conceptual Conclusion 142
Notes 169
Index 191

Über Autor(innen)

Moshe Halbertal is professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, and the Gruss Professor at New York University Law School. He is the author of People of the Book and the coauthor (with Avishai Margalit) of Idolatry.