| Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism Contributor(s): Idel, Moshe (Author) |
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ISBN: 0826496660 ISBN-13: 9780826496669 Publisher: Continuum OUR PRICE: $79.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 Annotation: While many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole a category much more vast than ever imagined. Idel's aim is to poin |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Theology |
| Dewey: 296.31 |
| LCCN: 2007025855 |
| Series: Robert and Arlene Kogod Library of Judaic Studies |
| Physical Information: 1.74" H x 6.31" W x 9.2" (2.29 lbs) 744 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Moshe Idel increasingly is seen as having achieved the eminence of Gershom Scholem in the study of Jewish mysticism. Ben, his book on the concept of sonship in Kabbalah, is an extraordinary work of scholarship and imaginative surmise. If an intellectual Judaism is to survive, then Idel becomes essential reading, whatever your own spiritual allegiances.-Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University While many aspects of sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book, Moshe Idel's magnum opus, constitutes the first attempt to address the category of sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole. Idel's aim is to point out the many instances where Jewish thinkers resorted to concepts of sonship and their conceptual backgrounds, and thus to show the existence of a wide variety of understandings of hypostatic sons in Judaism. Through this survey, not only can the mystical forms of sonship in Judaism be better understood, but the concept of sonship in religion in general can also be enriched. |