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Industrial Design##Toshiyoki Kita: Returning to the Interior##One of the 12 Japanese Masters published in the eponymous Graphis book redefines the furniture business in a land where one must chose between minimalist tradition and cheap plastic products.
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Leviticus
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ISBN: 0804231036 9780664238803 9780804231039 0664238807 Year: 2002 Publisher: Louisville John Knox Press

Absorbing perfections
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ISBN: 1281734861 9786611734862 0300135076 9780300135077 9781281734860 0300083793 9780300083798 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah-from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism-one of the world's foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel takes as a starting point the fact that the postbiblical Jewish world lost its geographical center with the destruction of the temple and so was left with a textual center, the Holy Book. Idel argues that a text-oriented religion produced language-centered forms of mysticism.Against this background, the author demonstrates how various Jewish mystics amplified the content of the Scriptures so as to include everything: the world, or God, for example. Thus the text becomes a major realm for contemplation, and the interpretation of the text frequently becomes an encounter with the deepest realms of reality. Idel delineates the particular hermeneutics belonging to Jewish mysticism, investigates the progressive filling of the text with secrets and hidden levels of meaning, and considers in detail the various interpretive strategies needed to decodify the arcane dimensions of the text.

Egypt on the Pentateuch's ideological map : constructing biblical Israel's identity
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ISBN: 0826462111 9780826462114 Year: 2002 Volume: 361 Publisher: Sheffield Sheffield academic press

Across the margins : cultural identity and change in the Atlantic archipelago.
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ISBN: 0719057493 9786610733941 1847791271 1280733942 1526137224 Year: 2002 Publisher: Manchester Manchester university press

The Pentateuch : an annotated bibliography
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ISBN: 080102398X 9780801023989 Year: 2002 Volume: 1 Publisher: Grand Rapids: Baker Books

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