And they shall be one flesh : on the language of mystical union in Judaism /

And they shall be one flesh : on the language of mystical union in Judaism /

In "And They Shall Be One Flesh": On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism , Adam Afterman offers an extensive study of mystical union and embodiment in Judaism. Afterman argues that Philo was the first to articulate the notion of unio mystica in Judaism and is the source of the henōsi...

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Main Author: Afterman, Adam.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 26.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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Mysticism > Judaism > Influence.
Cabala > Influence.
Mystical union.

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Call Number: BM723

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 From Philo to Plotinus: The Emergence of Mystical Union
  • 3 Unio Mystica and Ancient Jewish Mysticism
  • 4 Platonic and Aristotelian Traditions of Union
  • 5 "As Light Unites with Light": The Language of Union in Jewish Neoplatonism
  • 6 The Language of Union in the Writings of Moses Maimonides and Moses Nachmanides
  • 7 Mystical Union in Early Kabbalah
  • 8 Mystical Union in the Ecstatic Kabbalah of Abraham Abulafia
  • 9 Language and Images of Mystical Union in the Kabbalah of R. Isaac of Acre
  • 10 "Single Unification, Single Bond": The Language of Union and Unity in the Zohar
  • 11 From Kabbalah to the Renaissance and Hasidism: A Brief Overview
  • 12 Concluding Remarks
  • Primary Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Names and Subjects
  • Index of Primary Sources.