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“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On The Language of Mystical Union in Judaism
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In "And They Shall Be One Flesh": On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism, Adam Afterman offers an extensive study of mystical union and embodiment in Judaism. Afterman argues that Philo was the first to articulate the notion of unio mystica in Judaism and is the source of the henōsis mysticism in the later Neoplatonic tradition. The study provides a detailed analysis of the Jewish medieval trends that developed different forms of mystical union and mystical embodiment through the divine name and spirit. The book argues that the development of unitive mysticism in Judaism is the fruit of the creative synthesis of rabbinic Judaism and Hellenistic and Arab philosophy, and a natural outcome of the theological articulation of the idea of monotheism itself.
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“Despite their objection to the doubts regarding individual divine providence, the early Kabbalists had no problem with Maimonidean philosophy per se, as has been demonstrated in many recent studies.”
From The Emergence of the Kabbalah: Early Sefirotic Theosophy as a Response to Contemporary Theological Challenges (2022) · cites this paper as Afterman 2016
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- Authors
- Afterman, A.
- Corresponding author
- Afterman, Adam
- ORCID
- Afterman, Adam
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2016-08-25
- OpenAlex
- W2510671091
- Cited by
- 40
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 25 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1
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- 1.74
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- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Medieval and Classical Philosophy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Biblical Studies and Interpretation
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
- Keywords
- union with God, Philo of Alexandria, Jewish mysticism, divine names, divine spirit, rabbinic Judaism, Hellenistic philosophy, Arabic philosophy, Neoplatonism, monotheism
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