
Moshe Idel: Representing God
Representing God
Brill (Publisher)
Published on 6. October 2014
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-90-04-28077-9 (ISBN)
Description
Moshe Idel, the Max Cooper Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute, is a world-renowned scholar of the Jewish mystical tradition. His historical and phenomenological studies of rabbinic, philosophic, kabbalistic, and Hasidic texts have transformed modern understanding of Jewish intellectual history and highlighted the close relationship between magic, mysticism, and liturgy. A recipient of two of the most prestigious awards in Israel, the Israel Prize for Jewish Thought (1999) and the Emmet Prize for Jewish Thought (2002), Idel's numerous studies have uncovered persistent patterns of Jewish religious thought that challenge conventional interpretations of Jewish monotheism, while offering a pluralistic understanding of Judaism. His explorations of the mythical, theurgical, mystical, and messianic dimensions of Judaism have been attentive to history, sociology, and anthropology, while rejecting a naive historicist approach to Judaism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-28077-9 (9789004280779)
DOI
10.1000/b10607
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Persons
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.
Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.
Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.
Content
The Contributors
Editors' Introduction to the Series
Moshe Idel: An Intellectual Portrait Jonathan Garb
Torrah: Between Presence and Representation of the Divine in Jewish Mystiicsm Moshe Idel
Panim: On Facial Re-Presentations in Jewish Thought: Some Correlational Instances Moshe Idel
The Changing Faces as the Image of God in Jewish Mysticism Moshe Idel
Johannes Reuchlin: Kabbalah, Pythagorean Philosophy and Modern Scholarship Moshe Idel
Interview with Moshe Idel Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Selected Bibliography
Editors' Introduction to the Series
Moshe Idel: An Intellectual Portrait Jonathan Garb
Torrah: Between Presence and Representation of the Divine in Jewish Mystiicsm Moshe Idel
Panim: On Facial Re-Presentations in Jewish Thought: Some Correlational Instances Moshe Idel
The Changing Faces as the Image of God in Jewish Mysticism Moshe Idel
Johannes Reuchlin: Kabbalah, Pythagorean Philosophy and Modern Scholarship Moshe Idel
Interview with Moshe Idel Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Selected Bibliography