Time and eternity in Jewish mysticism : that which is before and that which is after /
"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 a...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2015
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| Series: | Studies in Jewish history and culture ;
Volume 48. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: that which is before [and that which is after] / Brian Ogren
- Retroactive not yet: linear circularity and kabbalistic temporality / Elliot R. Wolfson
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Soul time in modern Kabbalah / Jonathan Garb
- Time, eternity and mystical experience in Kabbalah / Adam Afterman
- "Higher than time": observations on some concepts of time in Kabbalah and Hasidism / Moshe Idel
