By Moshe Idel
ISBN-10: 3110540037
ISBN-13: 9783110540031
The specified affinities among Maimonides’ esotericism and Abraham Abulafia’s Kabbalah exhibit the deep effect of the previous at the latter. The early reports of Abulafia in medieval philosophy, in particular Neoaristotelian one, were analyzed for the 1st time. The e-book surveys major subject matters in Judaism as interpreted by means of Abulafia: Hebrew language, Torah, the folk of Israel, Paradise, within the gentle of Maimonides’ esotericism. It claims that Abulafia was once a thorough Maimonidean philosopher for his whole occupation and printed, every now and then, the hidden philosophical schedule of Maimonides, as he understood it. The common elements of Abulafia’s suggestion were installed reduction, not like these of so much of alternative Kabbalists. a few of the texts utilized in this exposition are nonetheless in manuscripts, they usually were pointed out right here for the 1st time as authored via Abulafia.. His examine is meant for college kids of medieval philosophy, Kabbalah, esotericism, specifically in Spain, Byzantine Empire, Italy and Sicily, within the 13th century.
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Secrets and Pearls: On Abraham Abulafia’s Esotericism (Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts) by Moshe Idel
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