Authors: Joseph Dan
ISBN-13: 9781568215631, ISBN-10: 1568215630
Format: Paperback
Publisher: The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc
Date Published: January 1996
Edition: Subsequent
Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics is a ground-breaking study of an ideological miracle, a tale of seven hundred years of diverse Jewish theological creativity. Many extreme, radical, and even seemingly heretical schools of thought were intergrated into a constructive, traditional Jewish ethics within the framework of Hebrew ethical literature. The ability of Jewish ethics to absorb and sustain conflicting ideas, which originated in schools that fought each other fiercely, presents a fascinating chapter in the history of Jewish ideas.
Preface to the First Edition | ||
Preface to the Second Edition | ||
1 | The Enigma of Hebrew Ethical Literature | 1 |
2 | Philosophical Ethics and the Early Kabbalists | 17 |
3 | Mysticism and Ethics in the Ashkenazi Hasidic Movement | 49 |
4 | Mystical Ethics in Sixteenth-Century Safed | 83 |
5 | Hebrew Ethical Literature and Via Mystica | 115 |
6 | Conclusion: The Modern Period | 133 |
Notes | 149 | |
Index | 165 |