Feb 24, 2011 in fact, despite his rather moderate and modest definition, idels phenomenological approach runs the risk of dehistoricizing the phenomena it is looking at and establishing an ahistorical, ideal, and essentialist construct. Click and collect from your local waterstones or get free uk delivery on orders over. Renowned for his meticulous reading of texts, idel has reinterpreted jewish mystical sources and discovered many new. Moshe idels methodology in perspective kabbalah, vol. While many aspects of sonship have been analyzed in books on judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of sonship in jewish mystical literature as a whole a category much more vast than ever imagined. 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. For one thing, it suggested a lot of other reading i. He has built upon the imposing work of gershon scholem often in a not uncritical manner and taken the study of the subject to greater depth. Sonship and jewish mysticism the kogod library of judaic studies 5, londonnew york. View the profiles of people named moshe ben israel. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. For the concept of sonship in the zohar, see moshe idel, ben.
Sonship and jewish mysticism, continuum, london, new york, 2007, pp. Moshe idel is the max cooper professor of jewish thought at the hebrew university and a senior researcher at the hartman institute. Sonship and jewish mysticism, won the 2007 national jewish book award, and was published by the institutes kogod library of judaic studies. Join facebook to connect with moshe ben israel and others you may know. These include the buchenwald ball 2006 about holocaust survivors in australia celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of their liberation, which screened on sbs television in australia his 2010 film the end of the rainbow was screened on abc. Moshe idel increasingly is seen as having achieved the eminence of gershom scholem in the study of jewish mysticism.
Ben, his book on the concept of sonship in kabbalah, is an extraordinary work of scholarship and imaginative surmise. Renowned for his meticulous reading of texts, idel has reinterpreted jewish mystical sources and discovered many new ones. Idel argues that a textoriented religion produced languagecentered forms of mysticism. Usa with impressive scholarship and penetrating insight moshe idel, the foremost expert on jewish. He is emeritus max cooper professor in jewish thought at the hebrew university, jerusalem, and a senior researcher at the shalom hartman institute. The most recent example of this approach is idels ben. For one thing, it suggested a lot of other reading i would like to get out of the way first. Feb 20, 2008 ben, his book on the concept of sonship in kabbalah, is an extraordinary work of scholarship and imaginative surmise. Join facebook to connect with yael ben moshe and others you may know. Johannes reuchlin as a reborn pythagoras various philosophies left their imprint on the different forms of kabbalah. In 2001 benmoshe was presented with the commonwealth centenary of federation medal for leadership against and research into racism in australia. A member of the israeli academy of science and humanities, he served also as president of the world union of jewish studies. The following is a list of idel s publications in english. Moshe idel has 58 books on goodreads with 1741 ratings.
More on moshe idel faculty shalom hartman institute. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus. On jewish mysticism and twentiethcentury thought jewish culture and contexts. Ebook moshe idel libro electronico descargar pdf serie. On jewish mysticism and twentieth century thought 2009. Sonship and jewish mysticism the robert and arlene. On jewish mysticism and twenti eth century thought 2009. Idel s aim is to point out the many instances where jewish thinkers, especially the mystics among them, resorted to concepts of sonship and their conceptual. The impact of neoplatonism1 and neoaristotelianism2 is best known, though some traces of the impact of stoicism3 and atomism4 can also be discern in the vast kabbalistic literature. National jewish book award in scholarship for kabbalah.
For more than three decades, in dozens of books and countless articles, he has rewritten the history of kabbalah, applying a bold variety of interpretive methodologies. This privileged status is part of a much broader vision of the female as stemming from a very high root. Sonship and jewish mysticism by moshe idel online at alibris. If an intellectual judaism is to survive, then idel. If an intellectual judaism is to survive, then idel becomes essential reading, whatever your own spiritual allegiances. New perspectives yale university press, new haven and london, 1988. Sonship and jewish mysticism, moshe idel, continuum, 2007 isbn 978. Kabbalah and interpretation 2002, by moshe idel, a very long book about 660 pages on medieval and early modern hermeneutics, falls neatly into the second category. Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. Publication date 20 usage attributionnoncommercialno derivative works 3.
Essays in honor of moshe idel, editors sandu frunza and michaela frunza, editura provopress, clujnapoca 2008. In total, he has published over one hundred books, translated into a dozen different languages. Danny has produced and directed several critically praised documentaries. The privileged divine feminine in kabbalah moshe idel.
Moshe idel this volume addresses the complex topic of the preeminent status of the divine feminine power, to be referred also as female, within the theosophical structures of many important kabbalists, sabbatean believers, and hasidic masters. Sonship and jewish mysticism was winner of the 2007 national jewish. Sonship and jewish mysticism by roberto abraham scaruffi idel, m. The impact of neoplatonism1 and neoaristotelianism2 is best known, though some traces of the impact of stoicism3 and atomism4. Sonship and jewish mysticism the robert and arlene kogod library of judaic studies 9780826496669.