Cultic and further orders : semiotics of a Kabbalistic culture / by Maurizio Mottolese

Englisch

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

© 2022

1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 231 Seiten)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Cultic and further orders. - Leiden : Brill, 2022. - ix, 231 Seiten

978-90-04-49900-3

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-90-04-49897-6 (Druckausgabe)

DOI: 10.1163/9789004499003

*Sephardim / Kabbalistik / Emblem / Semiotik / Geschichte 1500-1600

*Ibn Gabai, Meʾir ben Yeḥezḳel *1480-1543* / Lurya, Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh *1534-1572*

*Gabbai, Meir ben Ezekiel ibn -- 1480-approximately 1540 -- Tolaʻat Yaʻaḳov ; Albaz, Moses ben Maimon -- active 16th century -- Hekhal ha-ḳodesh ; Luria, Isaac ben Solomon -- 1534-1572 -- Influence ; Mysticism -- Judaism -- History ; Cabala -- History ; Order -- Religious aspects -- Judaism ; Culture -- Semiotic models

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BM526

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 296.1/609

Book Industry Communication: HRJX

bisacsh: REL 040060

The Disclosure of Sense and Order : Rhetoric and Hermeneutic Modes of Kabbalistic Semiotics : Rhetorical Patterns. The Quest for an Organization of Knowledge : Hermeneutic Perspectives. Proliferation and Articulation of Meanings -- The Imagery of Cosmic and Human Orders : Semantic Dimensions of Kabbalistic Semiotics : Cosmological Assumptions. Establishment and Maintenance of Orders : Lexical and Narrative Semantics. Reviving Cosmic Orders through Ritual Orders -- The Focus on Ritual Sequences : Syntactic Aspects of Kabbalistic Semiotics : Dwelling on the Formal Structures of Cultic Life : Re-Organizing the Ritual Syntax : Generating Mythical and Mystical Accounts from Ritual Syntax --The Construction of a Liturgical-Mystical Discipline : Pragmatic Effects of Kabbalistic Semiotics : Remolding, Extending and Intensifying Institutional Halakhic Orders : Shaping Kabbalistically-Oriented Community Conduct and Experience -- Final Remarks : Kabbalistic Orders from the Perspective of Cultural Semiotics -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book starts from the assumption that semiotics of culture and social-anthropological studies can offer useful tools to understand large segments and lasting aspects of the kabbalistic tradition. It attempts to study from this perspective the late Sephardi Kabbalah, by examining 16th-century emblematic commentaries that collect and carry on the earlier kabbalistic interpretation of the rabbinic ritual system. In this unusual light, much kabbalistic culture appears as an ongoing semiotic intensification of deep structures governing the discourse and practice of the Jews - so that, for instance, institutional cultic orders are integrated by other forms of order in imagination, thought, and experience"--

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