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Paperback Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation Book

ISBN: 0300191472

ISBN13: 9780300191479

Absorbing Perfections: Kabbalah and Interpretation

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In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah--from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism--one of the world's foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel takes as a starting point the fact that the postbiblical Jewish world lost its geographical center with the destruction of the temple and so was left with a textual center, the Holy Book. Idel argues...

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