TY - BOOK
T1 - “And They Shall Be One Flesh”
T2 - On The Language of Mystical Union in Judaism
AU - Afterman, Adam
N1 - Funding Information: The current study was supported by a grant from the Israel Science Foundation that allowed me to focus on this topic from 2013 to 2015, and to collaborate with a group of intelligent and dedicated TAU graduate students who contributed at various stages to different aspects of the project: Noam Hoffmann, Omer Michaelis, Marva Shalev Marom, and Idan Pinto.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - In “And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism, Adam Afterman offers an extensive study of mystical union and embodiment in Judaism. Afterman argues that Philo was the first to articulate the notion of unio mystica in Judaism and is the source of the henōsis mysticism in the later Neoplatonic tradition. The study provides a detailed analysis of the Jewish medieval trends that developed different forms of mystical union and mystical embodiment through the divine name and spirit. The book argues that the development of unitive mysticism in Judaism is the fruit of the creative synthesis of rabbinic Judaism and Hellenistic and Arab philosophy, and a natural outcome of the theological articulation of the idea of monotheism itself.
AB - In “And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism, Adam Afterman offers an extensive study of mystical union and embodiment in Judaism. Afterman argues that Philo was the first to articulate the notion of unio mystica in Judaism and is the source of the henōsis mysticism in the later Neoplatonic tradition. The study provides a detailed analysis of the Jewish medieval trends that developed different forms of mystical union and mystical embodiment through the divine name and spirit. The book argues that the development of unitive mysticism in Judaism is the fruit of the creative synthesis of rabbinic Judaism and Hellenistic and Arab philosophy, and a natural outcome of the theological articulation of the idea of monotheism itself.
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U2 - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004328730
DO - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004328730
M3 - كتاب
SN - 9789004328723
T3 - Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
BT - “And They Shall Be One Flesh”
PB - Brill Academic Publishers
CY - Leiden ; Boston
ER -