Abraham Abulafia's Mystical Theology of the Divine Name and its Philosophical Revision in Walter Benjamin

The thirteenth century kabbalist Abraham Abulafia held Hebrew to be the divine language, designed by God as an ontological aspect of reality. Through meditating on and deconstructing names into their letters, one could then engage in the process of reunifying reality into the primordial Name of God,...

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Main Author: Miller, Michael T. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group [2015]
In: Medieval mystical theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 24, Issue: 1, Pages: 80-94
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BH Judaism
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B Messianism
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B Kabbalah
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