In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah-from the mystical
trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism-one of the world's
foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the
sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. 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. Idel argues that a
text-oriented religion produced language-centered forms of
mysticism. Against this background, the author demonstrates how
various Jewish mystics amplified the content of the Scriptures so
as to include everything: the world, or God, for example. Thus the
text becomes a major realm for contemplation, and the
interpretation of the text frequently becomes an encounter with the
deepest realms of reality. Idel delineates the particular
hermeneutics belonging to Jewish mysticism, investigates the
progressive filling of the text with secrets and hidden levels of
meaning, and considers in detail the various interpretive
strategies needed to decodify the arcane dimensions of the text.
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