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Supernal Serpent

Author : Andrei A. Orlov
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197684149
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Supernal Serpent written by Andrei A. Orlov and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A certain king built himself a palace and summoned two persons to decorate it for him. The king divided his palace into two parts, putting one person in charge of one half and the second in charge of the other. One of the persons decorated his part of the palace with beautiful paintings of birds and animals. But the second person painted his half of the palace with black dye which was reflecting everything like a mirror. When the king came to judge the two decorations, everything he had seen in the first person's part he also saw in the second's part, since it was reflected in its black dye like in a mirror. Not only that, but even all the king could wish to put in the first half of his palace appeared in the second half. This found favor in the eyes of the king"--

Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Author : Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518719
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Jewish History and Jewish Memory written by Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publication of Yosef Yerushalmi's Zakhor in 1982 inspired a generation of scholarly inquiry into historical images and myths, the construction of the Jewish past, and the making and meaning of collective memory. Here, eminent scholars in their respective fields extend the lines of his seminal study into topics that range from medieval rabbinics, homiletics, kabbalah, and Hasidism to antisemitism, Zionism, and the making of modern Jewish identity. Essays are clustered around four central themes: historical consciousness and the construction of memory; the relationship between time and history in Jewish thought; the demise of traditional forms of collective memory; and the writing of Jewish history in modern times.

Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking

Author : Michael A. Fishbane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199284207
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (842 download)

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Download or read book Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking written by Michael A. Fishbane and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive study of myth in the Hebrew Bible and myth and mythmaking in classical rabbinic literature (Midrash and Talmud) and in the classical work of medieval Jewish mysticism (the book of Zohar). Michael Fishbane provides a close study of the texts and theologies involved and the central role of exegesis in the development and transformation of the subject. Taken up are issues of myth and monotheism, myth and tradition, and myth and language. The presence and vitality of myth in successive cultural phases is treated, emphasizing certain paradigmatic acts of God and features of the divine personality.

Taming the Beast

Author : Mark R. Sneed
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110580330
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Taming the Beast written by Mark R. Sneed and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leviathan, a manifestation of one of the oldest monsters in recorded history (3rd millennium BCE), and its sidekick, Behemoth, have been the object of centuries of suppression throughout the millennia. Originally cosmic, terrifying creatures who represented disorder and chaos, they have been converted into the more palatable crocodile and hippo by biblical scholars today. However, among the earliest Jews (and Muslims) and possibly Christians, these creatures occupied a significant place in creation and redemption history. Before that, they formed part of a backstory that connects the Bible with the wider ancient Near East. When examining the reception history of these fascinating beasts, several questions emerge. Why are Jewish children today familiar with these creatures, while Christian children know next to nothing about them? Why do many modern biblical scholars follow suit and view them as minor players in the grand scheme of things? Conversely, why has popular culture eagerly embraced them, assimilating the words as symbols for the enormous? More unexpectedly, why have fundamentalist Christians touted them as evidence for the cohabitation of dinosaurs and humans?

The Zohar

Author : Daniel Chanan Matt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804757126
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Zohar written by Daniel Chanan Matt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Radiance) has amazed and overwhelmed readers ever since it emerged mysteriously in medieval Spain toward the end of the thirteenth century. Written in a unique, lyrical Aramaic, this masterpiece of Kabbalah exceeds the dimensions of a normal book; it is virtually a body of literature, comprising over twenty discrete sections. The bulk of theZohar consists of a running commentary on the Torah, from Genesis through Deuteronomy. This fourth volume of The Zohar: Pritzker Edition covers the first half of Exodus. Here we find mystical explorations of Pharaoh's enslavement of the Israelites, the birth of Moses, the deliverance from Egypt, the crossing of the Red Sea, and the Revelation at Mount Sinai. Throughout, the Zohar probes the biblical text and seeks deeper meaningfor example, the nature of evil and its relation to the divine realm, the romance of Moses andShekhinah, and the inner meaning of the Ten Commandments. In the context of the miraculous splitting of the Red Sea, Rabbi Shim'on reveals the mysterious Name of 72, a complex divine name consisting of 216 letters (72 triads), formed out of three verses in Exodus 14. These mystical interpretations are interwoven with tales of the Companionsrabbis wandering through the hills of Galilee, sharing their insights, coming upon wisdom in the most astonishing ways from a colorful cast of characters they meet on the road.

The Zohar: Reception and Impact

Author : Boaz Huss
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 178962486X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book The Zohar: Reception and Impact written by Boaz Huss and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Jewish Book Awards Finalist for the Nahum N. Sarna Memorial Award for Scholarship, 2016. From its first appearance, the Zohar has been one of the most sacred, authoritative, and influential books in Jewish culture. Many scholarly works have been dedicated to its mystical content, its literary style, and the question of its authorship. This book focuses on different issues: it examines the various ways in which the Zohar has been received by its readers and the impact it has had on Jewish culture, including the fluctuations in its status and value and the various cultural practices linked to these changes. This dynamic and multi-layered history throws important new light on many aspects of Jewish cultural history over the last seven centuries. Boaz Huss has broken new ground with this study, which examines of the reception and canonization of the Zohar as well as its criticism and rejection from its inception to the present day. His underlying assumption is that the different values attributed to the Zohar are not inherent qualities of the zoharic texts, but rather represent the way it has been perceived by its readers in different cultural contexts. He therefore considers not only the attribution of different qualities to the Zohar through time but also the people who were engaged in attributing such qualities and the social and cultural functions associated with their creation, re-creation, and rejection. For each historical period from the beginning of Zohar scholarship to the present, Huss considers the social conditions that stimulated the veneration of the Zohar as well as the factors that contributed to its rejection, alongside the cultural functions and consequences of each approach. Because the multiple modes of the reception of the Zohar have had a decisive influence on the history of Jewish culture, this highly innovative and wide-ranging approach to Zohar scholarship will have important repercussions for many areas of Jewish studies.

Snake

Author : Drake Stutesman
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861895011
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Snake written by Drake Stutesman and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2005-11-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A snake smells with its tongue, hears with its flesh, and breathes under the sand with one lung; it can copulate for days with one snake or with fifty at once; it has infrared radar; and it can induce spontaneous bleeding if threatened. With all these qualities, it is easy to see how snakes have such varied associations in cultures around the world: while celebrated in tattoos and tales, and for medicinal benefits, snakes are also so universally feared that they constantly endure intense persecution and rarely enjoy protected rights. Drake Stutesman explores here in Snake the fascinating natural history of the maligned serpentine. Stutesman examines a wide range of sources to investigate the complex and widespread symbolism the snake has inspired, including the serpent's temptation of Eve in the Bible, Kaa in The Jungle Book, the Chinese zodiac, Indian snake charmers, and the Hollywood film Anaconda. She looks at the role snakes have played in human culture and science, from snake cuisine and the use of venom in medicine to the intriguing history of snake symbolism in art, architecture, cinema, and even clothing. Richly illustrated and written in an engaging style, Snake is an invaluable resource for snake enthusiasts and scholars, as well as for all who love, admire, or fear this fascinating and enduring animal.

The Zohar

Author : Daniel C. Matt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748681
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book The Zohar written by Daniel C. Matt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please see the Zohar Home Page for ancillary materials, including the publication schedule, press release, Aramaic text, questions, and answers.

The Generations of Adam

Author : Isaiah Horowitz
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809135905
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book The Generations of Adam written by Isaiah Horowitz and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here is a first time English translation of a seventeenth-century classic of Jewish literature that deals with many of the most important issues addressed by Kabbalists since the late twelfth century. Horowitz (c. 1570-1626) served as rabbi of several of the most important European Jewish communities before becoming Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of Jerusalem in 1621."--Publisher description.

The Early Kabbalah

Author : Joseph Dan
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809127696
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (276 download)

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Download or read book The Early Kabbalah written by Joseph Dan and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are previously unavailable texts, including The Book Bahir and the writings of the Iyyum circle, that were written during the first one hundred years of this movement that was to become the most important current in Jewish mysticism. This movement began in the late 12th century among Rabbinic Judaism in southern Europe.

The Wisdom of the Zohar

Author : Isaiah Tishby
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821829
Total Pages : 1653 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Wisdom of the Zohar written by Isaiah Tishby and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1989-09-01 with total page 1653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A classic, a landmark in modern Hebrew letters. Beautifully written and deeply learned ... the appearance of the long-awaited English translation is a cause for celebration.' - Elliot Ginsburg, Journal of Religion

Gnostic Healing

Author : Tau Malachi
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738723088
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Gnostic Healing written by Tau Malachi and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2010-09-08 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking work, Gnostic teacher Tau Malachi and Harvard-educated independent scholar Siobhán Houston have teamed up to present powerful Gnostic healing practices in a clear and systematic way found nowhere else. Techniques include mystical prayer, meditation, and sacred ceremony, and are suitable for both beginning and experienced healers. All the practices in this guidebook facilitate direct spiritual and mystical experiences that will awaken your soul and lead to self-realization. Essentially, it is a book of healing as a way of the Path to Enlightenment—Divine Gnosis. Praise for Tau Malachi “Malachi perfectly captures the oral tradition within the written word.”—Publishers Weekly

Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions

Author : Raphael Patai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471709
Total Pages : 1641 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Jewish Folklore and Traditions written by Raphael Patai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 1641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multicultural reference work on Jewish folklore, legends, customs, and other elements of folklife is the first of its kind.

The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism

Author : Geoffrey W. Dennis
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738748145
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Jewish Myth, Magic and Mysticism written by Geoffrey W. Dennis and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewish esotericism is the oldest and most influential continuous occult tradition in the West. Presenting lore that can spiritually enrich your life, this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia is devoted to the esoteric in Judaism—the miraculous and the mysterious. In this second edition, Rabbi Geoffrey W. Dennis has added over thirty new entries and significantly expanded over one hundred other entries, incorporating more knowledge and passages from primary sources. This comprehensive treasury of Jewish teachings, drawn from sources spanning Jewish scripture, the Talmud, the Midrash, the Kabbalah, and other esoteric branches of Judaism, is exhaustively researched yet easy to use. It includes over one thousand alphabetical entries, from Aaron to Zohar Chadesh, with extensive cross-references to related topics and new illustrations throughout. Drawn from the well of a great spiritual tradition, the secret wisdom within these pages will enlighten and empower you. Praise: "An erudite and lively compendium of Jewish magical beliefs, practices, texts, and individuals...This superb, comprehensive encyclopedia belongs in every serious library."—Richard M. Golden, Director of the Jewish Studies Program, University of North Texas, and editor of The Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition "Rabbi Dennis has performed a tremendously important service for both the scholar and the novice in composing a work of concise information about aspects of Judaism unbeknownst to most, and intriguing to all."—Rabbi Gershon Winkler, author of Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism

Kabbalistic Visions

Author : Sanford L. Drob
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000787427
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Kabbalistic Visions written by Sanford L. Drob and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as "the most tremendous things I have ever experienced." Central to these visions was the "mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition", and Jung’s experience of himself as "Rabbi Simon ben Jochai," the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic text, the Zohar. Kabbalistic Visions explores Jung’s 1944 Kabbalistic visions, the impact of Jewish mysticism on Jungian psychology, Jung’s archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism, and his claim late in life that a Hasidic rabbi, the Maggid of Mezhirech, anticipated his entire psychology. This book places Jung’s encounter with the Kabbalah in the context of the earlier visions and meditations of his Red Book, his abiding interests in Gnosticism and alchemy, and what many regard to be his Anti-Semitism and flirtation with National Socialism. Kabbalistic Visions is the first full-length study of Jung and Jewish mysticism in any language and the first book to present a comprehensive Jungian/archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism.

Evolution of the human life-wave on earth

Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Publisher : Philaletheians UK
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evolution of the human life-wave on earth written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and published by Philaletheians UK. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinctive feature of Philaletheians’ compilations is that headings (and side captions, when available) function as subtitles: when read sequentially, they impart the salient points of the entire compilation. The value of this feature becomes apparent in long and complex analyses, where Contents double as Train of Thoughts. In this book, pages 2-18 provide an outline of the main points, the syllogism of propositions, and further elaborations.

The Möbius Strip Topology

Author : Klaus Möbius
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000522407
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Möbius Strip Topology written by Klaus Möbius and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 19th century, pure mathematics research reached a climax in Germany, and Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) was an epochal example. August Ferdinand Möbius (1790–1868) was his doctoral student whose work was profoundly influenced by him. In the 18th century, it had been mostly the French school of applied mathematics that enabled the rapid developments of science and technology in Europe. How could this shift happen? It can be argued that the major reasons were the devastating consequences of the Napoleonic Wars in Central Europe, leading to the total defeat of Prussia in 1806. Immediately following, far-reaching reforms of the entire state system were carried out in Prussia and other German states, also affecting the educational system. It now guaranteed freedom of university teaching and research. This attracted many creative people with new ideas enabling the “golden age” of pure mathematics and fundamental theory in physical sciences. Möbius’ legacy reaches far into today’s sciences, arts, and architecture. The famous one-sided Möbius strip is a paradigmatic example of the ongoing fascination with mathematical topology. This is the first book to present numerous detailed case studies on Möbius topology in science and the humanities. It is written for those who believe in the power of ideas in our culture, experts and laymen alike.