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Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism

pillars, lines, ladders

by Mosheh Idel

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the architectural images of the ascent, like the resort to images of pillars, lines, and ladders. After surveying the variety of scholarly approaches to religion, the author also offers what he proposes as an eclectic approach, and a perspectivist one. The latter recommends to examine religious phenomena from a variety of perspectives. The author investigates the specific issue of the pillar in Jewish mysticism by comparing it to the archaic resort to pillars recurring in rural societies. Given the fact that the ascent of the soul and pillars constituted the concerns of two main Romanian scholars of religion, Ioan P. Culianu and Mircea Eliade, Idel resorts to their views, and in the Concluding Remarks analyzes the emergence of Eliade's vision of Judaism on the basis of neglected sources.

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Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics and Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism.

  • Kabbalah and Jewish esotericism

    Controlled discovery queries from austrian-library-network matched “Kabbala”. Retained metadata contains “Kabbala” in the subject metadata.

    • “Kabbala”· via Austrian Library Network — OBV-LIT
    • “Kabbala”· in subject
  • Consciousness, mysticism, and metaphysics

    Controlled discovery queries from openalex matched “mysticism”. Retained metadata contains “Mysticism” in the title, “Mysticism” in the description, “Mysticism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “mysticism”· via OpenAlex
    • “Mysticism”· in title
    • “Mysticism”· in description
    • “Mysticism”· in subject
    • “Mysticism”· in edition title

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pillars, lines, ladders

Austrian Library Network catalog record

2; Pasts incorporated; X, 249 S

2005CEU Press—
  • 9637326022
  • 9637326030
Catalog record

OpenAlex scholarly book record

2005-02-15Central European University Press eBooksEnglish—Unknown

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  • AC04528288
Austrian Library Network
  • 990045139110203331
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