Moshe Idel: Representing God: 8 (Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004280790 ISBN 13: 9789004280793

Publisher: Brill, 2014

Synopsis

Moshe Idel, the Max Cooper Professor Emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Senior Researcher at the Shalom Hartman Institute, is a world-renowned scholar of the Jewish mystical tradition. His historical and phenomenological studies of rabbinic, philosophic, kabbalistic, and Hasidic texts have transformed modern understanding of Jewish intellectual history and highlighted the close relationship between magic, mysticism, and liturgy. A recipient of two of the most prestigious awards in Israel, the Israel Prize for Jewish Thought (1999) and the Emmet Prize for Jewish Thought (2002), Idel's numerous studies uncovered persistent patterns of Jewish religious thought that challenge conventional interpretations of Jewish monotheism, while offering a pluralistic understanding of Judaism. His explorations of the mythical, theurgical, mystical, and messianic dimensions of Judaism have been attentive of history, sociology, and anthropology, while rejecting a naïve historicist approach to Judaism.

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About the Author

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004280790
• ISBN 13: 9789004280793
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Tirosh-Samuelson Hava, Hughes Aaron W