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Tables of Contents for Jewish Spirituality
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE TO THE SERIES
xi
2
INTRODUCTION
xiii
Part One: Foundations The Biblical Age
5
166
1 Israel's Religion in the Ancient Near East
5
27
David Sperling
2 The Jerusalem Temple in Devotional and Visionary Experience
32
30
Jon D. Levenson
3 Biblical Prophecy as a Religious Phenomenon
62
20
Michael Fishbane
4 Biblical Tradition: Literature and Spirit in Ancient Israel
82
31
Joel Rosenberg
5 Topics in the History of the Spirituality of the Psalms
113
32
James L. Kugel
6 From Prophecy to Apocalypse: The Book of the Watchers and Tours of Heaven
145
26
Martha Himmelfarb
Part Two: Emergence The Rabbinic Age
171
142
7 Varieties of Judaism in the Formative Age
171
27
Jacob Neusner
8 Philo and the Contemplative Life
198
34
David Winston
9 Law and Spirit in Talmudic Religion
232
21
Robert Goldenberg
10 Ascetical Aspects of Ancient Judaism
253
36
Steven D. Fraade
11 The Religious Experience of the Merkavah
289
24
Joseph Dan
Part Three: Reflections The Medieval Age
313
126
12 Apples of Gold: The Inner Meaning of Sacred Texts in Medieval Judaism
313
43
Frank Talmage
13 The Devotional Ideals of Ashkenazic Pietism
356
11
Ivan G. Marcus
14 The Mystic and the Mizwot
367
38
Daniel C. Matt
15 Hitbodedut as Concentration in Ecstatic Kabbalah
405
34
Moshe Idel
CONTRIBUTORS
439
2
PHOTOGRAPHIC CREDITS
441
1
INDEXES
442