Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism - Rilegato

Green, Arthur

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ISBN 10: 0691043728 ISBN 13: 9780691043722

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esoteric writings of late antiquity to the Zohar, written in thirteenth-century Spain. In the course of this investigation Arthur Green draws a wide arc including Talmudic, Midrashic, liturgical, Merkavah, German Hasidic, and Kabbalistic works, showing through this single theme the spectrum of devotional, mystical, and magical views held by various circles of Jews over the course of a millennium or more. The first portion of the work deals with late antiquity, emphasizing the close relationship between texts of what is often depicted as "normative" Judaism and their mystical/magical analogues. The mythic imagination of ancient Judaism, he suggests, is shared across this spectrum. The latter portion of the work turns to the medieval Jews who inherited this ancient tradition and its evolution into Kabbalah, where keter plays a key role as the first of the ten divine emanations or sefirot.The nature of these sefirot as symbols and the emergence of a structured and hierarchical symbolism out of the mythic imagery of the past are key themes in these later chapters. As a whole, Keter takes the reader on an exciting tour of the interior landscapes of the Jewish imagination, offering some remarkable insights into the nature of mystical and symbolic thinking in the Jewish tradition.

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"[T]he general intelligent reader, will find here a mine of information that slowly builds into a central metaphor for Judaism's theological preoccupation with the relationship between god and man."--The Jerusalem Post Magazine

Contenuti:

	Preface
	Abbreviations
Ch. 1	Ancient Israel: Crowns Above and Below	3
Ch. 2	Coronation and Qedushah	12
Ch. 3	The Heavenly Coronation: Primary Texts	20
Ch. 4	God's Crown and Israel's Prayer	33
Ch. 5	The Name on the Crown	42
Ch. 6	Crowns, Tefillin, and Magic Seals	49
Ch. 7	The Angels Crowned	58
Ch. 8	Israel Crowned at Sinai	69
Ch. 9	Coronation and Marriage	78
Ch. 10	Medieval Reconsiderations	88
Ch. 11	The Hymn of Glory	106
Ch. 12	The Way to Kabbalah	121
Ch. 13	Sefer ha-Bahir	134
Ch. 14	The Early Kabbalah	151
Appendix	Original Texts of Principal Primary Source Citations	167
	Bibliography	191
	Selective Index of Texts	207
	General Index	221

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0691043728
• ISBN 13: 9780691043722
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 226