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Through a Speculum That Shines

Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism

by Elliot R. Wolfson

Elliot Wolfson's prize-winning Princeton study investigates the visionary experience of God in Jewish mysticism from the Hekhalot texts through the German Pietists and the Zohar. He argues that imagination is the faculty through which the invisible God becomes visible and that this vision is profoundly gendered. A demanding, influential work for advanced readers. It won the American Academy of Religion book award.

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