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Author Idel, Moshe, author

Title Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism : Pillars, Lines, Ladders
Edition Rev
Published New York : Central European University Press, May 2005

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Description 1 online resource
Series Pasts Incorporated Ser. ; vol. 2
Pasts Incorporated Ser. ; vol. 2
Contents Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Concluding Remarks; Name Index; Subject Index
Summary Annotation Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. Surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural pictures of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders. Investigates the specific issue of the pillar in Jewish mysticism by comparing it to the archaic resort to pillars recurring in rural societies. Idel resorts to the views of two main Romanian scholars of religion, Culianu and Eliade, and analyzes the emergence of the latter's vision of Judaism on the basis of neglected sources
Annotation Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the archetectural images of the ascent, like the resort images of pillars, lines, and ladders
Audience Trade Central European University Press
Subject Cabala -- History
Ascension of the soul.
Columns -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Mysticism -- Judaism.
Hasidism.
Hasidism.
Columns -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Ascension of the soul
Cabala
Hasidism
Mysticism -- Judaism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789637326028
9637326022