JSRI volume 6, no. 18, Winter 2007 - Essays in Honor of Moshe Idel
Reading Idel’s Works Today
Spiritual Transformations of Torah in Biblical and Rabbinic Tradition
• p. 6
Moshe Idel's Contribution to the Study of Religion • p. 16
A Critical Return to Moshe Idel’s Kabbalah: New Perspectives: An Appreciation • p. 30
Moshe Idel's Phenomenology and its Sources • p. 41
Letter Permutation Techniques, Kavannah and Prayer in Jewish Mysticism • p. 52
Edenic Paradise and Paradisal Eden. Moshe Idel's Reading of the Talmudic Legend of the Four Sages Who Entered the Pardes • p. 79
Idel on Spinoza • p. 88
Zohar and Iamblichus • p. 95
Between Sefer Yezirah and Wisdom Literature: Three Binitarian Approaches in Sefer Yezirah • p. 101
Structure, Innovation, and Diremptive Temporality: The Use of Models to Study Continuity and Discontinuity in Kabbalistic Tradition • p. 143
Perspectives in Jewish Studies
How Does One Become a Jewish Philosopher? Reflections on a Canonical Status • p. 168
Aspects of the connection between Judaism and Christianity in Franz Rosenzweig’s philosophy • p. 181
Mystical Jewish Sociology • p. 206
The Challenges of the Books
Metafora cartii. Perceptia cartii ebraice în comunitatile nord transilvanene. Secolele XIX – XX (The Metaphor of the Book. The Hebrew Book and Its Perception in the Jewish Communities of North Transylvania. The 19th and 20th Centuries) • p. 218
Moshe Idel, cartea si hermeneutica negativului (Moshe Idel, The Book and the Hermeneutics of the Negative) • p. 226
Book Reviews
Moshe Idel, Ascension on High in Jewish Mysticism: Pillars, Lines, Ladders • p. 237
Moshe Idel, Maimonide si mistica evreiasca (Maimonide and Jewish mysticism) • p. 239