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Concealment and revelation : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications
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ISBN: 9780691125718 0691125716 9786612159183 1282159186 1400827965 9781400827961 9781282159181 Year: 2007 Publisher: Princeton (N. J.): Princeton university press,

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During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their particular understanding revealed the actual secret of the Torah. They presented their own readings in a coded fashion that has come to be regarded by many as the very essence of esotericism. Concealment and Revelation takes us on a fascinating journey to the depths of the esoteric imagination. Carefully tracing the rise of esotericism and its function in medieval Jewish thought, Moshe Halbertal's richly detailed historical and cultural analysis gradually builds conceptual-philosophical force to culminate in a masterful phenomenological taxonomy of esotericism and its paradoxes. Among the questions addressed: What are the internal justifications that esoteric traditions provide for their own existence, especially in the Jewish world, in which the spread of knowledge was of great importance? How do esoteric teachings coexist with the revealed tradition, and what is the relationship between the various esoteric teachings that compete with that revealed tradition? Halbertal concludes that, through the medium of the concealed, Jewish thinkers integrated into the heart of the Jewish tradition diverse cultural influences such as Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism, and Hermeticisims. And the creation of an added concealed layer, unregulated and open-ended, became the source of the most daring and radical interpretations of the tradition.


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Les juifs et les pouvoirs : des minorités médiévales dans l'Occident méditerranéen (XVe - XVe siècle)
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ISBN: 9782204134866 2204134864 Year: 2020 Volume: 11 Publisher: Paris: Cerf,

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Cet ouvrage, écrit alors que la question d'histoire médiévale au programme de l'agrégation interne d'Histoire porte sur les rapports entre pouvoirs et minorités, souhaite donner aux lecteurs les clés pour comprendre la situation et l'existence des juifs dans l'Occident médiéval. En conduisant le lecteur au plus près des textes médiévaux, de la production écrite la plus quotidienne et la moins connue, en montrant comment s'écrit une histoire des juifs renouvelée, loin des stéréotypes persistants, les cinq chapitres parcourent quatre siècles de vie juive, dans sa diversité et sa vitalité, pour dresser un portrait d'un judaïsme médiéval bien différent de celui de l'Antiquité ou de ceux des périodes moderne et contemporaine. Sans négliger les faits déjà connus, comme la richesse de la vie intellectuelle juive ou les relations entre des élites juives et les princes, le lecteur découvrira une synthèse sur des questions complexes qui ont fait l'objet de travaux universitaires récents : quels sont les droits qui règlent les activités des juifs, quelle place et quelle position les juifs avaient dans la communauté politique, entre citoyenneté et servage, comment les universités des juifs s'inscrivaient dans l'espace local, du royaume, national, transnational. La découverte d'un monde encore mal connu pourrait bien offrir une distance bienvenue pour réfléchir aux problèmes qui taraudent le corps politique d'aujourd'hui

Judaism in practice : from the Middle Ages through the early modern period
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ISBN: 0691057877 0691057869 9780691057873 0691227985 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,


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Wechselseitige Wahrnehmung der Religionen im Spätmittelalter und in der Frühen Neuzeit
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ISSN: 09304304 ISBN: 9783110213522 9783110285192 3110285193 3110213524 1283858134 3110285282 3110285290 Year: 2012 Volume: 4 Publisher: Berlin: de Gruyter,


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Through a speculum that shines : vision and imagination in medieval Jewish mysticism
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ISBN: 0691073430 9780691073439 Year: 1994 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,


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Death in Jewish life : burial and mourning customs among Jews of Europe and nearby communities
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ISBN: 3110377489 3110339188 3110338610 3110552167 9783110338614 9783110377484 9783110339185 Year: 2014 Publisher: De Gruyter

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Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.

Commentaire sur la liturgie quotidienne
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ISBN: 9004038221 9789004038226 9789004497801 9004497803 Year: 1974 Volume: 5 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,


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The Cambridge companion to medieval Jewish philosophy
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ISBN: 0521655749 0521652073 9780521652070 9780521655743 9781139000055 Year: 2003 Volume: *37 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

Juifs et chrétiens dans le monde occidental (430 - 1096)
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ISBN: 9789042918795 9042918799 9782877239639 2877239632 Year: 2006 Volume: 41 Publisher: Paris: Peeters,

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