Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism

by Moshe Idel

Book Overview

"Moshe Idel increasingly is seen as having achieved the eminence of Gershom Scholem in the study of Jewish mysticism. Ben, his book on the concept of sonship in Kabbalah, is an extraordinary work of scholarship and imaginative surmise. If an intellectual Judaism is to survive, then Idel becomes essential reading, whatever your own spiritual allegiances."-Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University While many aspects of sonship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B00250KNIW
• ISBN13: 9780826496669
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 744 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"