Research Catalog

Title

Creation and re-creation in Jewish thought : festschrift in honor of Joseph Dan on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / edited by Rachel Elior and Peter Schäfer.

Publication

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2005.

Supplementary Content

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Additional Authors

• דן, יוסף, 1935-2022.
• Dan, Joseph, 1935-2022.
• אליאור, רחל.
• Elior, Rachel.
• Schäfer, Peter.

Description

viii, 415, 264 : portrait; 24 cm

Subjects

• Dan, Yosef, 1935-
• Festschriften
• History
• Cabala > Historiography
• Mysticism > Judaism > History
• Cabala > History

Genre/Form

• Festschriften.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• English and Hebrew.

Contents

• English Section. The Talmudic concept of conjuring ('ahizat ʻeinayim) and the problem of the definition of magic (kishuf) / Philip S. Alexander -- On demons / Dan Ben-Amos -- From cosmology to theology: the Rabbinic appropriation of apocalyptic cosmology / Peter Schäfer -- The creative force of a hermeneutic rule: the principle "there is no earlier and later in the Torah" in Midrashic and Talmudic literature / Margarete Schlüter -- Selective affinities: reflections on Jewish and Christian mystical exegesis / Bernard McGinn -- An unknown commentary on the Book of Creation (Sefer Yezirah) from the Cairo Genizah and its re-creation among the Haside Ashkenaz / Klaus Herrmann -- The first two positive commandments in Maimonides' list of the 613 believed to have been given to Moses at Sinai / Herbert A. Davidson -- Hasidut Ashkenaz on the angel of dreams: a heavenly messenger reflecting or exchanging man's thoughts / Annelies Kuyt -- The Midrash, Sefer Hasidim and the changing face of God / Haym Soloveitchik -- The medieval saint as protagonist and storyteller: the case of R. Judah he-Hasid / Eli Yassif -- Circle, point and line: a Lurianic myth in the Puerta del Cielo / Gerold Necker -- "Ein Li 'Eseq ba-Nistarot": Saul Levi Morteira's sermons on Parashat Bereshit / Marc Saperstein -- "The East" in the story of the Lost Tribes: creation of geographical and political Utopias / Giuseppe Veltri -- Covenant of faith or covenant of fate?: competing Orthodox conceptions of the secular Jews / Aviezer Ravitzky -- Halakhah, thought and the idea of holiness in the writings of Rabbi Chaim David Halevi / Avinoam Rosenak -- "Absolutely intellectually honest": a case-study of American Jewish modern Orthodox historiography / Kimmy Caplan -- A case for sainte-beuve: some remarks on Gershem's autobiography / Saverio Campanini --
• Ahavat Yisrael: nationhood, the pariah and the intellectual / Eric Jacobson -- Hebrew Section. Genesis Exegesis: Genesis-Psalms-Job-Psalms / Yair Zakovitch -- "You have chosen Enoch from among human beings": Enoch "the scribe of righteousness" and the Scroll's library of "the priests the sons of Zadok" / Rachel Elior -- Restitution of the Bible / David Weiss Halivni -- "He created all for his glory": the creation of the world and its purpose in light of 'the marital blessing of the grooms' / Avigdor Shinan -- Women in the teachings of the German Pietists / Avraham Grossman -- The early Kabbalistic exegesis on the Book of Contemplation / Giulio Busi -- The utterance and the holiness as reflected in the laws of the Sabbath / Moshe Hallamish -- The moral of the householders: the book "Sam Hayim" by Avraham Ashkenazi Apteiker from Ludmir / Jacob Elbaum / Chava Turniansky -- Creation and re-creation: a study in charm books / Hagit Matras -- The history of the study of Kabbalah and its dissemination in Saloniki in the 16th century / Joseph Hacker -- The redemption of the world or the annihilation of the world: restitution in Hasidism / Raya Haran -- Secularization of the sacred? Forms of inter-textual expression in a poem by Yehuda Amichai / Arnold J. Band -- Personal inter-relations as a mystical aspiration in Hebrew Zionistic literature / Hamutal Bar Josef -- Exile in the motherland: "Katzchen" and "Ephraim": two stories of Yoel Hoffmann -- Miri Kubovy -- Bibliography of Joseph Dan / Naama ben Shahar.

Call Number

JFE 23-1967

ISBN

• 3161487141
• 9783161487149

LCCN

• 2006483739
• 9783161487149

OCLC

61263531

Title

Creation and re-creation in Jewish thought : festschrift in honor of Joseph Dan on the occasion of his seventieth birthday / edited by Rachel Elior and Peter Schäfer.

Imprint

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2005.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

English and Hebrew.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Added Author

Dan, Joseph, 1935-2022.

Alternate Script for Added Author

דן, יוסף, 1935-2022.

Added Author

Elior, Rachel.

Alternate Script for Added Author

אליאור, רחל.

Added Author

Schäfer, Peter.

Other Form:

Online version: Creation and re-creation in Jewish thought. Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, ©2005 (OCoLC)651881412

Other Standard Identifier

9783161487149

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1967