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2. The God-Absorbing Text: Black Fire on White Fire

From the book Absorbing Perfections

  • Moshe Idel
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300135077-005
© Yale University Press, New Haven
From the book
Absorbing Perfections
Absorbing Perfections

Chapters in this book (28)

Frontmatter
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Introduction
1. The World-Absorbing Text
2. The God-Absorbing Text: Black Fire on White Fire
3. Text and Interpretation Infinities in Kabbalah
4. The Book That Contains and Maintains All
5. Magical and Magical-Mystical Arcanizations of Canonical Books
6. Torah Study and Mystical Experiences in Jewish Mysticism
7. Secrecy, Binah, and Derishah
8. Semantics, Constellation, and Interpretation
9. Radical Forms of Jewish Hermeneutics
10. The Symbolic Mode in Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalah
11. Allegories, Divine Names, and Experiences in Ecstatic Kabbalah
12. Tzerufei Όtiyyot: Mutability and Accommodation of the Torah in Jewish Mysticism
13. Tradition, Transmission, and Techniques
14. Concluding Remarks
Appendix 1. Pardes: The Fourfold Method of Interpretation
Appendix 2. Abraham Abulafia’s Torah of Blood and Ink
Appendix 3. R. Isaac of Acre’s Exegetical Quandary
Appendix 4. The Exile of the Torah and the Imprisonment of Secrets
Appendix 5. On Oral Torah and Multiple Interpretations in Hasidism
Appendix 6. ‘‘Book of God’’/‘‘Book of Law’’ in Late-Fifteenth-Century Florence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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