The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah

The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 376
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ISBN-10 : 0887067786
ISBN-13 : 9780887067785
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Download or read book The Sabbath in the Classical Kabbalah written by Elliot Kiba Ginsburg and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a critical study of the mystical celebration of Sabbath in the classical period of Kabbalah, from the late twelfth to the early sixteenth centuries. The Kabbalists' re-reading of the earlier Jewish tradition has been called a model of "mythopoeic revision," a revision rooted in a world-view that stressed the interrelation of all worlds and levels of being. This is the first work, in any language, to systematically collect and analyze all the major innovations in praxis and theology that classical Kabbalah effected upon the development of the Rabbinic Sabbath, one of the most central areas of Jewish religious practice. The author analyzes the historical development of the Kabbalistic Sabbath, constructs a theoretical framework for the interpretation of its dense myth-ritual structure, and provides a phenomenology of key myths and rituals. It is one of the first Kabbalistic studies to integrate traditional textual-historical scholarship with newer methods employed in the study of religion and symbolic anthropology.


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