Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals: Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah

by Joel Hecker

Book Overview

Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent mystical attainment in their homilies about eating. What emerges is not only consideration of eating practices but, more broadly, the effects such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814331815
• ISBN13: 9780814331811
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and A
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"