Author : Mortimer Ostow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429923430
This book introduces the psychoanalytic study of the Kabbalah as a serious discipline. It illustrates the applicability of psychodynamic concepts to Jewish mysticism and the "apocalyptical complex" and essays on specific incidents in the Bible and the Kabbalah.
Author : Moshe Hallamish
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 32,24 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1438405553
This book acquaints the reader with the world of the Kabbalah. The first part discusses the Kabbalist as a person: the personal transmission of Kabbalistic traditions, the Kabbalist's qualities and qualifications, prerequisites and early preparations, risks and achievements, as well as techniques for uncovering mysteries and the sources of revelations. The second part deals with the major themes in the teachings of the Kabbalah, such as the doctrine of the Sefirot, the Sitra–Ahra—good and evil, the creation of the world, the status of the Torah and its commandments, the doctrine of the soul and the transmigration of souls. In treating these issues, the book also notes the assimilation of Kabbalistic notions in Jewish religious customs.
Author : Yosef Kaplan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1909821411
A biography of Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal and one of the most prominent intellectual figures in the 17th century. This work sheds light on the life of a Jewish community of former Christians in Amsterdam and examines their dilemmas and attempts to create a new identity.
Author : Meira Polliack
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2016-07-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9004294260
Karaism is a Jewish religious movement of a scripturalist and messianic nature, which emerged in the Middle Ages in the areas of Persia-Iraq and Palestine and has maintained its unique and varied forms of identity and existence until the present day, undergoing resurgent cycles of creativity, within its major geographical centres of the Middle-East, Byzantium-Turkey, the Crimea and Eastern Europe. This Guide to Karaite Studies contains thirty-seven chapters which cover all the main areas of medieval and modern Karaite history and literature, including geographical and chronological subdivisions, and special sections devoted to the history of research, manuscripts and printing, as well as detailed bibliographies, index and illustrations. The substantial volume reflects the current state of scholarship in this rapidly growing sub-field of Jewish Studies, as analysed by an international team of experts and taught in various universities throughout Europe, Israel and the United States.
Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2018-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004378995
This collection of 16 articles represents a selection of the papers delivered in the course of a seminar (1995-1996) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and its concluding joint symposium held at the Institute and Princeton University. Wide-ranging in scope, the volume covers messianic expectations from biblical times up to modern and contemporaneous adaptations, whereby the focus lies on the messianic concept within Judaism: diversity and variety of messianic expectations in antiquity; messianic movements at the time of the Crusades and around the fifth millennium (1240); the 'Pseudo'-Messiah Sabbatai Avi in the early modern period; the philosophers Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin with respect to their thinking about messianism as well as the Lubavitch movement. Also included are investigations on pagan Graeco-Roman writings and messianic strands in the medieval and baroque Christian context. The section on the modern period contains contributions dealing with the Ahmaddiyya movement in India, messianic currents in the socio-political culture of the Weimar Republic as well as certain messianic aspects in the very recent so-called Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas. The broad spectrum of stimulating analyses provides a fresh re-evaluation of an apparently timeless phenomenon.
Author : Tamar Rudavsky
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 1995-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814774539
Demonstates through different essays Jewish Womens movement rides the fine line between tradition and transformation.
Author : John J. Collins
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791423455
This is a psychological and historical exploration of belief in a spirit world, imperceptible to the senses, as a pervasive and deeply-rooted characteristic of religion.
Author : Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,79 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1438401906
By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies — for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth— this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructive motivations. As a constructive project, this book describes, renews, and participates in the complex and ongoing modern discussion about the nature of Jewish bodies and the place of bodies in Judaism.
Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 143842437X
This book deals with aspects of the gender imaging of God in a variety of medieval kabbalistic sources. It provides the key to understanding the phenomenological structures of mystical experience as well as the thematic correlation of esotericism and eroticism that is central to the kabbalah. The author examines the role of gender utilizing current feminist studies and cultural anthropology. He explores the themes of the feminization of the Torah, the correlation of circumcision and vision of God, the phallocentric understanding of divine creation as a process of inscription mythologized as an act of sexual self-gratification, and the phenomenon of gender-crossing in kabbalistic myth and ritual. Collectively, the studies explore in great depth the androcentric phallocentrism that is characteristic of medieval Jewish mysticism.
Author : Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 48,33 MB
Release : 2023-07-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9004679111
Discusses messianism in nineteenth-century Yemen as a social and cultural phenomenon and traces the early roots of both Jewish and Muslim messianism in Yemen from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries with attention to messianic movements in the nineteenth century.
