Moshe idel biography graphic organizer

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Membership Add photo. Awards Add photo. Other Photos Add photo. Connections Add photo. After earning his doctorate with a thesis on Abraham Abulafia, he eventually succeeded Scholem to the chair of Jewish Thought. Idel has undertaken a systematic revision of the history and analysis of Jewish mysticism. His explorations of the mythical, theurgical, mystical, and messianic dimensions of Judaism have been attentive to history, sociology, and anthropology, while rejecting a naive historicist approach to Judaism.

His historical and phenomenological studies of rabbinic, philosophic, kabbalistic, and Hasidic texts have transformed the understanding of Jewish intellectual history and highlighted the close relationship between magic, mysticism, and liturgy. Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikimedia Commons Wikidata item.

Israeli historian and philosopher of Jewish mysticism. Life and scholarship [ edit ]. Mainstream displacement of rationalism with Kabbalah. Selective influence on Western thought. Mysticism after Spanish expulsion. Mystics of 16th-century Safed. Popular Kabbalistic Mussar. Mysticism in religious Zionism. Academic interest in Jewish mysticism.

Non-Orthodox interest in Jewish mysticism. Kabbalistic reasons for the Mitzvot. Positions: Hasmonean Sadducean Pharisee Boethusian. People: Aristobulus of Alexandria Philo of Alexandria. Awards [ edit ].