Messianic Mystics

Name: Messianic Mystics
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ISBN: 9780300082883

ISBN-10: 0300082886

ISBN-13: 9780300082883

Edition: 2000

Authors: Moshe Idel

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This is an examination of the tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical knowledge. The author attempts to prove that far from being incompatible religious tendencies, messianism and mysticism are in fact closely related phenomena.

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 5/11/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 466
Size: 7.40" wide x 9.13" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.562
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: The Sources of Messianic Consciousness



Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish Forms of Messianism



Abraham Abulafia: Ecstatic Kabbalah and Spiritual Messianism



Concepts of Messiah in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Theosophical Forms of Kabbalah



Messianism and Kabbalah, 1470-1540



From Italy to Safed and Back, 1540-1640



Sabbateanism and Mysticism



Hasidism: Mystical Messianism and Mystical Redemption



Concluding Remarks



Ego, Ergo Sum Messiah: On Abraham Abulafia's Sefer ha-Yashar



Tiqqun Hatzot: A Ritual between Myth, Messianism, and Mysticism



Some Modern Reverberations of Jewish Messianism


Notes


References


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