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During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their particular understanding revealed the actual secret of the Torah. They presented their own readings in a coded fashion that has come to be regarded by many as the very essence of esotericism. Concealment and Revelation takes us on a fascinating journey to the depths of the esoteric imagination. Carefully tracing the rise of esotericism and its function in medieval Jewish thought, Moshe Halbertal's richly detailed historical and cultural analysis gradually builds conceptual-philosophical force to culminate in a masterful phenomenological taxonomy of esotericism and its paradoxes. Among the questions addressed: What are the internal justifications that esoteric traditions provide for their own existence, especially in the Jewish world, in which the spread of knowledge was of great importance? How do esoteric teachings coexist with the revealed tradition, and what is the relationship between the various esoteric teachings that compete with that revealed tradition? Halbertal concludes that, through the medium of the concealed, Jewish thinkers integrated into the heart of the Jewish tradition diverse cultural influences such as Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism, and Hermeticisims. And the creation of an added concealed layer, unregulated and open-ended, became the source of the most daring and radical interpretations of the tradition.
Esoteric sciences --- Jewish religion --- Mysticism --- Cabala --- Judaism --- History. --- History --- Judaism. --- Mysticism - Judaism --- Cabala - History. --- Judaism - History - Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789
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What is the place of Jews in medieval Christian societies? in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this question was largely confined to Jewish scholars, and the academic debates where inseparable from the upheavels of the lives of contemporary European Jews.
Legal history --- Judaism --- History --- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 --- Islam --- Law --- Christianity and other religions --- Jews --- Judaïsme --- Christianisme --- Juifs --- Relations --- Christianity --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Droit --- Byzantine Empire --- Europe --- Empire byzantin --- Church history --- Histoire religieuse --- Judentum. --- Kanonisches Recht. --- Judaism. --- Christianity. --- To 1500. --- Byzantine Empire. --- Europe. --- Legal status, laws, etc
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Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.
Jewish mourning customs --- Death --- Jews --- Judaism --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Mourning customs, Jewish --- Mourning (Jewish law) --- Mourning customs --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- History --- Folklore. --- Liturgy. --- Religion. --- Jewish mourning customs - Europe --- Death - Religious aspects - Judaism --- Jews - Europe, Western - History - 70-1789 --- Judaism - History - Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789
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