Alef, Mem, Tau - Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death

Informationen zum Autor Elliot R. Wolfson is Judge Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Among his most recent books are Language! Eros! Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination (2005)! Pathwings: Poetic-Philosophic Reflections on the Hermeneutics of Time and Language (2004)! Abraham Abulafia-Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics! Theosophy! and Theurgy (2000)! and Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (1994). Klappentext "Wolfson's treatment of the concept of time is both stimulating and original. Methodologically and conceptually rich! the scholarship exhibited in this book is exemplary. The style is engaging and dynamic! and captures the fresh and vital quality of the series of talks from which the book emerged."-Hindy Najman! author of Seconding Sinai: The Development of Mosaic Discourse in Second Temple Judaism Zusammenfassung Explores the nexus of time, truth, and death in the symbolic world of medieval kabbalah. This book discusses Islamic mysticism and Buddhist thought in relation to the Jewish esoteric tradition as it opens the possibility of a temporal triumph of temporality and the conquering of time through time. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Chapter One Thinking Time / Hermeneutic Suppositions Chapter Two Linear Circularity / (A)temporal Poetics Chapter Three Before Alef / Where Beginnings End Chapter Four Within Mem / Returning Forward Chapter Five After Tau / Where Endings Begin Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Elliot Wolfson, Elliot R. Wolfson, Wolfson Elliot
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2006
• EAN: 9780520246195
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24619-5
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Taubman Lectures in Jewish Stu; Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies; Taubman Lectures in Jewish Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; PHILOSOPHY / Political, RELIGION / Judaism / General, Religion & beliefs, social and political philosophy, Judaism