Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN: | 9781400827961 1400827965 1282159186 9781282159181 9780691125718 0691125716
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Digital file characteristics: | data file
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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.
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Other form: | Print version: Halbertal, Moshe. Seter ṿe-gilui. English. Concealment and revelation. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691125718 0691125716
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