Time and Eternity in Jewish Mysticism

That Which Is Before and That Which Is After
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29030-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Time and eternity are concepts that have occupied an important place within Jewish mystical thought. This present volume gives pride of place to these concepts, and is one of the first works to bring together diverse voices on the subject. It offers a multivalent picture of the topic of time and eternity, not only by including contributions from an array of academics who are leaders in their fields, but by proposing six diverse approaches to time and eternity in Jewish mysticism: the theoretical approach to temporality, philosophical definitions, the idea of time and pre-existence, the idea of historical time, the idea of experiential time, and finally, the idea of eternity beyond time. This multivocal treatment of Jewish mysticism and time as based on variant academic approaches is novel, and it should lay the groundwork for further discussion and exploration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ogren, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Spiritualität & Mystik (Kabbala, Chassidismus)
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Zeit: Philosophische, Psychologische, Soziale Aspekte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Philosophie, Aufklärung, Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction Brian Ogren
PART ONE: SETTING THE THEORETICAL STAGE
Retroactive Not Yet: Linear Circularity and Kabbalistic Temporality, Elliot R. Wolfson
PART TWO: PHILOSOPHICAL DEFINITIONS OF MYSTICAL TIME
Neoplatonic Time in Isaac Israeli: On the Beginning of the End of Love [as the Beginning of the Beginning of Love], Sarah Pessin Solomon Maimon’s Philosophical Exegesis of Mystical Representations of Time and Temporal Consciousness, Dustin N. Atlas
PART THREE: ON TIME AND PRE-EXISTENCE
Chaotic Beginnings: Yohanan Alemanno on the Time of Creation, Brian Ogren
The Case of Jewish Arianism: The Pre-existence of the Zaddik in Early Hasidism, Shaul Magid
PART FOUR: HISTORICAL TIME
The Ritualization of Messianic Time in Early Jewish Mysticism: The Apocalypse of Abraham as a Test Case, Andrei A. Orlov
The Notion of Time as History in Kabbalistic Treatises from Renaissance Italy, Fabrizio Lelli
The Mitnagdim and the Rabbinic Era as the Age of Reason, Eliyahu Stern
PART FIVE: EXPERIENTIAL SOUL TIME
Soul Time in Modern Kabbalah, Jonathan Garb
Time, Eternity and Mystical Experience in Kabbalah, Adam Afterman
PART SIX: CONCLUSION BEYOND TIME
“Higher than Time”: Observations on Some Concepts of Time in Kabbalah and Hasidism, Moshe Idel
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brian Ogren is the Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of Judaism in the Religion Department at Rice University. He has published widely on Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah, including Renaissance and Rebirth: Reincarnation in Early Modern Italian Kabbalah (Brill, 2009).