Luminal Darkness : Imaginal Gleanings from Zoharic Literature

Wolfson, Elliot R.

Oneworld Academic（2007/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 320 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781851684755
• DDC分類 296.162

Full Description

Renowned as one of the world's most astute interpreters of Kabbalistic texts, Elliot Wolfson offers an illuminating and original presentation of Kabbalah. Combining its wisdom with Western philosophical heritage from Plato to Heidegger and beyond, synergy guides his elucidation of the fundamentals of Jewish mysticism and shapes his taxonomy of Kabbalistic thought.

An insightful collection of seminal essays written between 1986 and 1998, Luminal Darkness reveals the unmistakably poetic nature of this important scholar's creative process, and delineates the evolution of his thinking on the role and importance of the Zohar in Kabbalistic tradition.

Contents

Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction xiii

1. Left Contained in the Right: A Study in Zoharic

Hermeneutics 1

2. Light through Darkness: The Ideal of Human

Perfection in the Zohar 29

3. Beautiful Maiden without Eyes: Peshat. and Sod in

Zoharic Hermeneutics 56

4. Forms of Visionary Ascent as Ecstatic Experience

in the Zoharic Literature 111

5. Coronation of the Sabbath Bride: Kabbalistic

Myth and the Ritual of Androgynization 144

6. Re/membering the Covenant:Memory,

Forgetfulness, and the Construction of

History in the Zohar 185

7. Fore/giveness on the Way:Nesting in the Womb

of Response 228

8. Occultation of the Feminine and the Body of

Secrecy in Medieval Kabbalah 258

Index 295