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.
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"Wolfson 'gets it'. He knows. And he can communicate, somehow, this gnosis to his attentive and properly prepared readers." -- Jeffrey Kripal - J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Rice University, Houston Texas.
Wolfson 'gets it'. He knows. And he can communicate, somehow, this gnosis to his attentive and properly prepared readers. -- Jeffrey Kripal - J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Rice University, Houston Texas.
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 fundementals of Jewish mysticism and shapes his taxonomy of Kabbalistic thought. -- Choice
Wolfson 'gets it'. He knows. And he can communicate, somehow, this gnosis to his attentive and properly prepared readers. -- Jeffrey Kripal - J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Rice University, Houston Texas.
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 fundementals of Jewish mysticism and shapes his taxonomy of Kabbalistic thought. -- Choice
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Elliot R. Wolfson is the Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew Studies at New York University. He is currently the Editor of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy and the author of several award-winning books on Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah.
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sitra ahra, sitrei torah, ets hayyim, messianic idea, early kabbalah, avodah zarah, jewish spirituality, zoharic authorship, other zoharic passages, zoharic context, demonic left, beautiful maiden without eyes, petah einayim, sefirotic pleroma, theosophic symbolism, divine gradations, zoharic corpus, theosophic kabbalists, zoharic hermeneutics, zoharic text, zoharic understanding, zoharic interpretation, demonic shells, other kabbalistic sources, sefirotic emanations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Holy One, Babylonian Talmud, New York, Garden of Eden, Yom Kippur, Moses de León, Zohar Hadash, Jacob ben Sheshet, Book of the Pomegranate, Major Trends, Other Side, Song of Songs, Community of Israel, Gershom Scholem, Genesis Rabbah, Magnes Press, Middle Ages, Moshe Idel, Tigqunei Zohar, Jewish Thought, Princeton University Press, New Haven, New Perspectives, Harvard University Press, Jewish Theological Seminary of America Browse Sample Pages:
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