02880nam a2200361 a 4500001001200000003000800012006001900020007001500039008004100054010001700095020004300112020004000155040002100195035002100216041001300237050002600250082001700276100002200293240003200315245017300347260006000520300001700580504005100597505141800648533015202066650002402218650002102242650006602263655002902329710001702358856012602375999001702501ebr10312434CaPaEBRm        u        cr cn|||||||||070110s2007    nju     sb    001 0 eng    z  2007001212  z9780691125718 (hardcover : alk. paper)  z0691125716 (hardcover : alk. paper)  aCaPaEBRcCaPaEBR  a(OCoLC)4387538911 aenghheb14aBM526b.H34513 2007eb04a296.7/122221 aHalbertal, Moshe.10aSeter �ve-gilui.lEnglish10aConcealment and revelationh[electronic resource] :besotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications /cMoshe Halbertal ; translated by Jackie Feldman.  aPrinceton, N. J. :bPrinceton University Press,cc2007.  aviii, 200 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aThe 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.  aElectronic reproduction.bPalo Alto, Calif. :cebrary,d2013.nAvailable via World Wide Web.nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 0aMysticismxJudaism. 0aCabalaxHistory. 0aJudaismxHistoryyMedieval and early modern period, 425-1789. 7aElectronic books.2local2 aebrary, Inc.40uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10312434zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view  c63225d63225