@Book{355251159,
author="Idel, Mosheh",
title="Absorbing perfections: Kabbalah and interpretation",
year="2002",
publisher="Yale Univ. Press",
address="New Haven [u.a.]",
keywords="Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; O.T; Pentateuch; Cabala; History",
contents="The world-absorbing text -- The God-absorbing text : black fire on white fire -- Text and interpretation affinities in Kabbalah -- The book that contains and maintains all -- Magical and magical-mystical arcanizations of canonical books -- Torah study and mystical experiences in Jewish mysticism -- Secrecy, binah, and derishah -- Semantics, constellation, and interpretation -- Radical forms of Jewish hermeneutics -- The symbolic mode of theosophical-theurgical Kabbalah -- Allegories, divine names, and experiences in ecstatic Kabbalah -- Tzerufei otiyyot : mutability and accommodation of the Torah in Jewish mysticism -- Tradition, transmission, and techniques -- 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",
note="Moshe Idel. Foreword by Harold Bloom",
note="Includes bibliographical references p. 493 - 645 and index",
note="Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gew{\"a}hrleistet SSG pdager DE-21",
isbn="9780300083798",
language="English"
}