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Jewish Mysticism: From Ancient Times through Today

Publisher:
, 2020
ISBN: 9780802864031

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Overview

Questions of how the divine presence is understood and interacts within the world have been around since the time of the biblical prophets. The Jewish mystical tradition conceives God as active, just, powerful, and present while allowing for divine limitation so as to understand the relationship between God and the Jewish people in their history.

Jewish Mysticism surveys Jewish visionary and mystical experience from biblical and ancient Near Eastern times through the modern period and the emergence of modern Hasidism. Marvin Sweeney provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of Jewish studies in the twenty-first century, providing an accessible overview of texts and interpretative issues.

Sweeney begins with the biblical period, which most treatments of Jewish mysticism avoid, and includes chapters on the ancient Near East, the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets and Psalms, the Latter Prophets, Jewish Apocalyptic, the Heikhalot Literature, the Sefer Yetzirah and early Kabbalistic Literature, the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah and the Shabbetean Movement, and the Hasidic Movement.

Placing Jewish apocalyptic literature into the larger development of ancient Jewish visionary and mystical experience, Sweeney fills gaps left by the important but outdated work of others in the field. Ideal for the scholar, student, or general reader, Jewish Mysticism provides readers with a fresh understanding of the particular challenges, problems, needs, and perspectives of Judaism throughout its history.

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  • Surveys Jewish visionary and mystical experience
  • Provides an accessible overview of texts and interpretative issues
  • Addresses the particular challenges, problems, needs, and perspectives of Judaism throughout its history
  • Introduction
  • Visionary Experience in the Ancient Near East
  • Visionary and Dream Experience in the Pentateuch
  • The Former Prophets and Psalms
  • The Latter Prophets
  • Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
  • The Heikhalot Literature
  • From Heikhalot to Early Kabbalistic Literature
  • The Zohar
  • Lurianic Kabbalah
  • Hasidism
  • Conclusion

Marvin A. Sweeney is professor of Hebrew Bible at the Claremont Lincoln University and Claremont School of Theology, and professor of Bible at the Academy for Jewish Religion in California. He is the author of 12 books, including Isaiah 1–39 in The Forms of the Old Testament Literature series, New Visions of Isaiah, and Zephanaiah in the Hermeneia commentary series.

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