02880nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10312434 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070110s2007 nju sb 001 0 eng 2007001212 9780691125718 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0691125716 (hardcover : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)438753891 eng heb BM526 .H34513 2007eb 296.7/12 22 Halbertal, Moshe. Seter �ve-gilui. English Concealment and revelation [electronic resource] : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications / Moshe Halbertal ; translated by Jackie Feldman. Princeton, N. J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. viii, 200 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. The paradox of esotericism : "and not on the chariot alone" -- The hidden and the sublime : vision and restriction in the Bible and in the Talmudic literature -- The ethics of vision : the attitude of early Jewish mysticism towards gazing at the chariot -- Concealment and power : magic and esotericism in the hekhalot literature -- Esotericism and commentary : Ibn Ezra and the exegetical layer -- Concealment and heresy : astrology and the secret of the Torah -- Double language and the divided public in the guide of the perplexed -- The breaching of the limits of the esoteric : concealment and disclosure in Maimonidean esotericism -- From transmission to writing : hinting, leaking and orthodoxy in early Kabbalah -- Open knowledge and closed knowledge : the Kabbalists of Gerona Rabbi Azriel and Rabbi Yaakov Bar Sheshet -- Tradition, closed knowledge and the esoteric : secrecy and hinting in Nahmanides' Kabbalah -- From tradition to literature : Shem Tov Ibn Gaon and the critique of Kabbalistic literature -- "The widening of the apertures of the showpiece" : Shmuel Ibn Tibon and the end of the era of esotericism -- Esotericism, sermons and curricula : Ya'akov Anatoli and the dissemination of the secret -- The ambivalence of secrecy : the dispute over philosophy in the early 14th century -- Esotericism, discontent and co-existence -- Taxonomy and paradoxes of esotericism : conceptual conclusion. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Mysticism Judaism. Cabala History. Judaism History Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10312434 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 63225 63225