Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism Book

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Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using phenomeno, Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism

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Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
Written by author Elliot R. Wolfson
Published by Princeton University Press, November 1997
A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using phenomeno
"Wolfson brilliantly shows that the visionary mode of religious experience is central to Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages . . . . A landmark study from one of our most gifted scholars."--Elliot Ginsburg, University of Michig

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Acknowledgments
Introduction 3
Ch. 1 "Israel: The One Who Sees God" - Visualization of God in Biblical, Apocalyptic, and Rabbinic Sources 13
Ch. 2 Vision of God in Mystical Sources: A Typological Analysis 52
Ch. 3 Visionary Ascent and Enthronement in the Hekhalot Literature 74
Ch. 4 Theories of the Glory and Visionary Experience in Pre-Kabbalistic Sources 125
Ch. 5 Haside Ashkenaz: Veridical and Docetic Interpretations of the Chariot Vision 188
Ch. 6 Visionary Gnosis and the Role of the Imagination in Theosophic Kabbalah 270
Ch. 7 The Hermeneutics of Visionary Experience: Revelation and Interpretation in the Zohar 326
Conclusion 393
Appendix: Manuscripts Cited 399
Select Bibliography of Primary Sources Cited 401
Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources Cited 409
Index 439

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	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
Ch. 1	"Israel: The One Who Sees God" - Visualization of God in Biblical, Apocalyptic, and Rabbinic Sources	13
Ch. 2	Vision of God in Mystical Sources: A Typological Analysis	52
Ch. 3	Visionary Ascent and Enthronement in the Hekhalot Literature	74
Ch. 4	Theories of the Glory and Visionary Experience in Pre-Kabbalistic Sources	125
Ch. 5	Haside Ashkenaz: Veridical and Docetic Interpretations of the Chariot Vision	188
Ch. 6	Visionary Gnosis and the Role of the Imagination in Theosophic Kabbalah	270
Ch. 7	The Hermeneutics of Visionary Experience: Revelation and Interpretation in the Zohar	326
	Conclusion	393
	Appendix: Manuscripts Cited	399
	Select Bibliography of Primary Sources Cited	401
	Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources Cited	409
	Index	439