Editorial: Wayne State University Press
Colección: Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology
Número de páginas: 296 págs.
Fecha de edición: 30-09-2023
EAN: 9780814350935
ISBN: 978-0-8143-5093-5
Precio (sin IVA): 54,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 56,16 €
This is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent mystical attainment in their homilies about eating. What emerges is not only consideration of eating practices but, more broadly, the effects such practices and experiences have on the bodies of its practitioners.