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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Named Person: | Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre.; Isaac ben Samuel, of Acre. |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Eitan P Fishbane; ProQuest (Firm) |
OCLC Number: | 1261986423 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Description: | xi, 322 p. |
Contents: | Pt. 1. Context. Perspectives and new directions : reflections on the state of scholarship -- The wandering kabbalist : historical profile and context. pt. 2. Reception and transmission. Receiving tradition, constructing authority -- Intentions and the recovery of meaning -- Seeing the secret : creative process and the hermeneutics of insight. pt. 3. Contemplative practice, mystical experience. Contemplation, theurgical action, and the presence of God -- Techniques of mystical contemplation : kavvanah and devotional experience -- Asceticism, prophecy, and mystical union. |
Series Title: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture. |
Responsibility: | Eitan P. Fishbane. |
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