Ritual practices to gain power : angels, incantations, and revelation in early Jewish mysticism 9781563382192, 1563382199

Scholastic Magic: Ritual and Revelation in Early Jewish Mysticism [Course Book ed.] 9781400864416

In exploring the social background of early Jewish mysticism, Scholastic Magic tells the story of how imagination and ma

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Jewish Mysticism

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Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late Antiquity 9780271093390

In the waning years of the Roman Empire, Jews, Christians, and pagans alike used rituals to bridge the gap between the h

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Kabbalah in Print: The Study and Popularization of Jewish Mysticism in Early Modernity 1438479719, 9781438479712

How did Jewish mysticism go from arcane knowledge to popular spirituality? Kabbalah in Print examines the cultural impac

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Revelation and Divination in Ndembu Ritual 0801408636, 9780801408632

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Revelation and Authority: Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition 9780300158953

Winner of the 2016 Goldstein-Goren Award for the best book in Jewish Thought At once a study of biblical theology and

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Studies In East European Jewish Mysticism And Hasidism 1874774323, 9781874774327

Joseph Weiss (1918-69) showed a single-minded commitment to identifying and describing the mystical element in hasidism

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Keter: The Crown of God in Early Jewish Mysticism [Course Book ed.] 9781400864607

Keter is a close reading of fifty relatively brief Jewish texts, tracing the motif of divine coronation from Jewish esot

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Jewish Ritual Murder

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Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism 9781589832572, 1589832574, 9004151214, 9789004151215, 9789047419204

A substantial introduction to the study of early Jewish and Christian mysticism, this volume examines major aspects of t

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