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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The World-Absorbing Text
- 2. The God-Absorbing Text: Black Fire on White Fire
- 3. Text and Interpretation Infinities in Kabbalah
- 4. The Book That Contains and Maintains All
- 5. Magical and Magical-Mystical Arcanizations of Canonical Books
- 6. Torah Study and Mystical Experiences in Jewish Mysticism
- 7. Secrecy, Binah, and Derishah
- 8. Semantics, Constellation, and Interpretation
- 9. Radical Forms of Jewish Hermeneutics
- 10. The Symbolic Mode in Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalah
- 11. Allegories, Divine Names, and Experiences in Ecstatic Kabbalah
- 12. Tzerufei Îtiyyot: Mutability and Accommodation of the Torah in Jewish Mysticism
- 13. Tradition, Transmission, and Techniques
- 14. Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1. Pardes: The Fourfold Method of Interpretation
- Appendix 2. Abraham Abulafiaâs Torah of Blood and Ink
- Appendix 3. R. Isaac of Acreâs Exegetical Quandary
- Appendix 4. The Exile of the Torah and the Imprisonment of Secrets
- Appendix 5. On Oral Torah and Multiple Interpretations in Hasidism
- Appendix 6. ââBook of Godââ/ââBook of Lawââ in Late-Fifteenth-Century Florence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index