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3 papers in the library · 2 citations · publishing 1996-2011
Shofar March 1, 2011 Eliezer Lorne Segal
Reviewed by: The Origins of Jewish Mysticism Eliezer Segal The Origins of Jewish Mysticism, by Peter Schäfer. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. 398 pp. €99.00. The Mishnah (Hagigah 2:1) identified a number of topics in the rabbinic curriculum that could not be taught openly, among which the most secret was "the work of the chariot," the Ma'aseh Merkavah. It is clear that this esoteric discipline...
Shofar March 1, 1999 Cynthia Ann Humes
Topical Book Reviews III together with an index that runs to over a hundred. pages, makes it easy to locate particular topics and to use the book for one's own purposes. And that is perhaps the role that it will significantly play in future scholarship: no one who writes on the scriptural forms of Hinduism or Judaism, or on "scripture" as a genus of religious expression, or on the theory of...
Shofar December 1, 1996 Mark Verman 2 citations
Kabbalah Refracted: Review Essay KABBALAH REFRACTED Review Essay by MarkVerman Depanment of Religion Carleton College 123 Through a SpeculumThat Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, by ElliotWolfson. Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1994. 452 pp. Elliot Wolfson is arguably the country's premier scholar of Jewish mysticism. Through a Speculum That Shines (hencefonh...