Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages

Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54321-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

This book explores the way that the Torah was appreciated and interpreted as a text and symbol in Christian and Jewish sources from the Second Temple period through the Middle Ages. It tracks the development and complex interactions of three images of Torah— “God-like,” “Angelic,” and “Messianic”— which are found in late-antique Jewish and Christian materials as well as in medieval kabbalistic and Jewish philosophic sources. It provides a unique template for tracing the development of theological ideas related to the images of Torah and offers a sophisticated and innovative analysis of the relationship between mystical experience, theology, and phenomenology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heo, Jeong Mun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Originality, Significance and Critical Implications of This Research

2 Statement of Problem, Current Research and Critical Questions

3 Research Methodology: Grounding in Moshe Idel’s Panoramic Approach

4 Research Methodology with an Outline of Chapters

Part 1: Images of Torah in the Second Temple and Rabbinic Periods

1 Hypostatic Notions Linked to the Concept of Torah

1 The Conceptual and Historical Backdrops of Torah

2 Various Derivative Forms of Hypostatic Notions Linked to the Concept of Torah

3 Intertextual and Theological Nexuses between the Hypostatic Notions of Torah

4 Theological and Phenomenological Implications

2 The Images of Torah in Early Christianity and Multifaceted Judaism

1 Torah, the Foundation of Jesus as Personified Wisdom and Incarnate Logos

2 Jesus in the Gospels as a Derivative Form of the Hypostatic Notions of Torah

3 Three Images of Torah: Angelic, Messianic, and God-Like

4 Critical Findings and Implications: Exegetical and Phenomenological

Part 2: Images of Torah from the Second Temple Period to the Middle Ages

Introduction to Part 2

3 An Angelic Image of Torah in the Medieval Jewish Philosophical Tradition

1 The Continuity of Angelic Images of Torah: From the Logos to the Active Intellect

2 Angelic Images of Torah Related to the Idea of Devekut to the Logos and Active Intellect

4 A God-Like Image of Torah in the Medieval Jewish Mystical Tradition

1 The Continuity of God-Like Images of Torah in the Sefirot

2 God-Like Image of Torah Related to the Idea of Unio Mystica to the Sefirot

3 Critical Findings and Implications

5 A Messianic Image of Torah in the Jewish Philosophic and Mystical Tradition

1 The Continuity of Messianic Images of Torah

2 Messianic Image of Torah Related to the Ideas of Devekut and Unio Mystica

6 Phenomenological Analysis of Images of Torah from the Second Temple Period through the Middle Ages

1 On the Angelic Image of Torah

2 On the God-Like Image of Torah

3 On the Messianic Image of Torah

4 Reconsidering Idel’s Panoramic Approach: The Images of Torah as Model and Phenomenology

Conclusion

Afterword

Bibliography

Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources

Index of Subjects

Index of Modern Authors

Über Autor(innen)

Jeong Mun Heo, Ph.D (2021), Yeshiva University, is currently Visiting Lecturer of Jewish Studies at that university and is a Golda Meir Postdoctoral Fellow at Hebrew University. He has published books and articles on Biblical studies and education in Korean.