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Concealment and revelation : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications
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Concealment and revelation : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications

Moshe Halbertal

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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.

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Concealment and revelation : esotericism in Jewish thought and its philosophical implications by Moshe Halbertal. ISBN 9780691125718. Published by Princeton University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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