Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah

Moshe Idel is Max Cooper Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid; Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia; The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia; and Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah, all published by SUNY Press.

• Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Abraham Abulafia and Unio Mystica 2. Was Abraham Abulafia Influenced by the Cathars? 3. Abraham Abulafia on the Jewish Messiah and Jesus 4. The Influence of Sefer 'Or HaSekhel on R. Moses Narboni and R. Abraham Shalom 5. Mundus Imaginalis and Likkutei HaRan 6. Ecstatic Kabbalah and The Land of Israel 7. Hitbodedut as Concentration in Ecstatic Kabbalah References Subject Index Author Index Index of Works Cited