Jewish Spirituality: From the Bible through the Middle Ages

Table of contents

• World Spirituality an Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest ii
• Board of Editors and Advisors iii
• Title Page v
• Contents ix
• Preface to the Series xi
• Introduction xiii
• Part One - Foundations the Biblical Age 1
• 1 - Israel's Religion in the Ancient Near East 5
• Notes 29
• Bibliography 30
• 2 - The Jerusalem Temple in Devotional and Visionary Experience 32
• Notes 58
• Bibliography 61
• 3 - Biblical Prophecy as a Religious Phenomenon 62
• Notes 80
• 4 - Biblical Tradition: Literature and Spirit in Ancient Israel 82
• Notes 107
• 5 - Topics in the History of the Spirituality of the Psalms 113
• Notes 137
• Bibliography 143
• 6 - From Prophecy to Apocalypse: The Book of the Watchers and Tours of Heaven 145
• Notes 162
• Bibliography 165
• Part Two - Emergence the Rabbinic Age 167
• 7 - Varieties of Judaism in the Formative Age 171
• Notes 197
• Bibliography 197
• 8 - Philo and the Contemplative Life 198
• Notes 227
• Bibliography 230
• 9 - Law and Spirit in Talmudic Religion 232
• Notes 250
• Bibliography 252
• 10 - Ascetical Aspects of Ancient Judaism 253
• Notes 277
• Bibliography 287
• 11 - The Religious Experience of the Merkavah 289
• Bibliography 307
• Part Three - Reflections the Medieval Age 309
• 12 - Apples of Gold: The Inner Meaning of Sacred Texts in Medieval Judaism 313
• Notes 345
• Bibliography 354
• 13 - The Devotional Ideals of Ashkenazic Pietism 356
• Notes 365
• Bibliography 365
• 14 - The Mystic and the Miຓwot 367
• Notes 400
• Bibliography 404
• 15 - Hitbodedut as Concentration in Ecstatic Kabbalah Moshe Idel 405
• Notes 437
• Contributors 439
• Photographic Credits 441
• Indexes 442
• Colophon 450

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