Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9665-2
Verlag: BLOOMSBURY 3PL

Buch, Englisch, Band 05, 744 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1202 g

Reihe: Kogod Library of Judaic Studie

Winner of the 2007 National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship !

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 concepts of Sonship and their conceptual backgrounds, and thus to show the existence of a wide variety of understandings of hypostatic sons in Judaism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Idel, Moshe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)

Über Autor(innen)

Moshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an expert in Kabbalah and recipient of the prestigious Israel Prize for excellence in the field of Jewish Philosophy.He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel.