Reference Type: Journal Article
Author: Chirilă, Ioan
Year: 2002
Title: The biblical bases of jewish mysticism
Journal: Studia Hebraica
Issue: 2
Pages: 192-203
Language: English
Keywords: Jewish minority, interdisciplinary, theology, religion, emancipation
Abstract: (En) The author identifies three biblical grounds of mysticism: the image - tzelem of man as a materialization of his resemblance to God in a theos-anthropos-liturgos-centric approach; the tetragrammaton YHWH, which best expresses the divine introducing man in the space of the Holy Land by means of a theophany; and the merkabah, which gathers two mystical structures: shi'ur koma and verah koah. It is the author's argument that the emancipation from within of the 19th century directed even the historical discourse towards an original time, featured by a mystical touch.