Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 531 g
Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 531 g
Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and
ISBN: 978-90-04-49897-6
Verlag: Brill
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Disclosure of Sense and Order
Rhetoric and Hermeneutic Modes of Kabbalistic Semiotics
1 Rhetorical Patterns. The Quest for an Organization of Knowledge
1.1 Collecting and Rearranging Stances in two 16th-Century Kabbalistic Commentaries
1.2 A Kabbalistic Cultural Subset and Its Strategies for Cultural Memory
1.3 Some Emblematic Discussions on Morning Rituals
2 Hermeneutic Perspectives. Proliferation and Articulation of Meanings
2.1 Unfolding Layers of Meaning and Reality
2.2 Constructing Patterns of Order
2.3 Binary Oppositions and Vertical Connections
2 The Imagery of Cosmic and Human Orders
Semantic Dimensions of Kabbalistic Semiotics
1 Cosmological Assumptions. Establishment and Maintenance of Orders
1.1 A Mixture of Imaginative Patterns of Different Origin
1.2 Forms of Mediation and Supernal Structures
1.3 Anthropomorphic Orders and Ritual Orders
1.4 The Impact of Human Action on the Cosmic Architectonics
2 Lexical and Narrative Semantics. Reviving Cosmic Orders through Ritual Orders
2.1 Mythical Accounts on the Restoring Power of Human Action
2.2 The Use of s-d-r and the Related Narrative Elaboration
3 The Focus on Ritual Sequences
Syntactic Aspects of Kabbalistic Semiotics
1 Dwelling on the Formal Structures of Cultic Life
1.1 The Engagement of all Ritual Dimensions, and the Triadic Pattern Thought-Speech-Act
1.2 The Attention to all Ritual Items, Including Formal Units and Sequences
2 Re-Organizing the Ritual Syntax
2.1 Narrow Sequels
2.2 Broader Structures
2.3 Temporal Patterns
3 Generating Mythical and Mystical Accounts from Ritual Syntax
3.1 The Disclosure of Deep Syntactic Orders
3.2 The Elaboration of Dense Narrative Sequences and Ascending Experiential Routes
4 The Construction of a Liturgical-Mystical Discipline
Pragmatic Effects of Kabbalistic Semiotics
1 Remolding, Extending and Intensifying Institutional Halakhic Orders
1.1 Conservative Reinforcement through Renewal
1.2 Variation and Change in Social Pragmatics
1.3 The Production of Directional Mystical Techniques
2 Shaping Kabbalistically-Oriented Community Conduct and Experience
2.1 Elements of Distinction and Cohesion
2.2 Towards a Communal Mystical Discipline?
2.3 Hypotheses on Psychosocial Effects
2.4 Reflections on Socio-Cultural Functions
Final Remarks
Kabbalistic Orders from the Perspective of Cultural Semiotics
1 The Search for Methodologies Moving between Structure and History
2 On Semiotics of Culture and Its Fecundity for Kabbalah Studies
3 On Ordering and Disordering Vectors in Kabbalistic Literature
Bibliography
Index