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The Book of the Opening of the Mouth: the Egyptian texts with English translations
Reprint of the 1909 ed. published by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., London, which was issued as v. 26-27 of Books on Egypt and Chaldaea.
The Hidden and Manifest God: Some Major Themes in Early Jewish Mysticism
This book represents the first wide-scale presentation and interpretation of pre-kabbalistic, Jewish mysticism. This is the Kekhalot or Merkavah mysticism. The emphasis is on the conceptions of God, the angels and man that the texts provide and that…
Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period
This volume presents the most important portions of Erwin Goodenough's classic thirteen-volume work, a magisterial attempt to encompass human spiritual history in general through the study of Jewish symbols in particular. Revealing that the Jewish…
Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism
A comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using…