Ben: Sonship and Jewish Mysticism by Moshe Idel - 9780826496669

Ben: Sonship and Jewish MysticismAuthor(s): Moshe Idel\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.\nISBN-13: 9780826496669, 978-0826496669\nSynopsis\nWhile many aspects of Sonship have been analyzed in books on Judaism, this book constitutes the first attempt to address the category of Sonship in Jewish mystical literature as a whole - a category much more vast than ever imagined. Idel's aim is to point out the many instances where Jewish thinkers, especially the mystics among them, resorted to concepts of Sonship and their conceptual backgrounds, and thus to show the existence of a wide variety of understandings of hypostatic sons in Judaism. By this survey, not only can the mystical forms of Sonship in Judaism be better understood, but the concept of Sonship in religion in general can also be enriched. \""The Kogod Library of Judaic Studies\"" aims to publish new research in all areas of Judaic studi.