The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah /

The Privileged Divine Feminine in Kabbalah / / 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. This privileged status is part of a much broader vision of the Fema...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
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Idel, Moshe,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]
©2019
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 251 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction – Theosophical Kabbalah: Complexity and Dynamism
  • 2. Reification and the Ontological Status of Thought and Action in Early Kabbalah
  • 3. The Gender Addition to “Action”
  • 4. On the Elevated Status of the Divine Feminine in Theosophical Kabbalah
  • 5. The Father, the Head, and the Daughter
  • 6. Sefer Ma‘arekhet ha-’Elohut and its Reverberations
  • 7. R. Moshe Cordovero and R. Shlomo ha-Levi Alqabetz
  • 8. R. Isaac Luria Ashkenazi, His Kabbalist and Sabbatean Followers
  • 9. R. Moshe Hayyim Luzzatto: 1707–1746
  • 10. The Privileged Female in Some Later Kabbalists in Ashkenaz
  • 11. Some Hasidic Examples of the Three-Phases Gender Theory
  • 12. Some Wider Terminological Considerations
  • 13. Concluding Remarks
  • Primary Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index

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