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This is an investigation of the relationship between the mystical and moral as it is expressed in the particular tradition of Jewish mysticism known as the Kabbalah.

Title Venturing beyond : law and morality in Kabbalistic mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson. [electronic resource]
Publisher Oxford : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2023
Notes Previously issued in print: 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Introduction: Morality and Mysticism: Parallel or Intersecting Lines?
1. Ontology, Alterity, and the Anthropological Other
2. Othering the Other: Eschatological Effacing of Ontic Boundaries
3. Beyond Good and Evil: Hypernomian Transmorality and Delimiting the Limit
4. Suffering, Humility, and Transgressive Piety
Bibliography
Index of Names and Sources
Index of Subjects and Terms
Series Oxford scholarship online.
Extent 1 online resource (400 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010713889705171
MARC RECORDS
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