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Time and Eternity in Jewish Mysticism: That Which Is Before and That Which Is After

By Brian Ogren

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004290303, 9789004290303
ISSN
1568-5004
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1404339 bytes)
Series
Studies in Jewish History and Culture 48
Pages
xii+228\241
Topic
Religion kabbalah
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2015-08-04 16:49:59
Jewish Life Judaism Religion Spirituality Religiou

Description

Time and eternity are concepts that have occupied an important place within Jewish mystical thought. This present volume gives pride of place to these concepts, and is one of the first works to bring together diverse voices on the subject. It offers a multivalent picture of the topic of time and eternity, not only by including contributions from an array of academics who are leaders in their fields, but by proposing six diverse approaches to time and eternity in Jewish mysticism: the theoretical approach to temporality, philosophical definitions, the idea of time and pre-existence, the idea of historical time, the idea of experiential time, and finally, the idea of eternity beyond time. This multivocal treatment of Jewish mysticism and time as based on variant academic approaches is novel, and it should lay the groundwork for further discussion and exploration.

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