Eating and Embodiment in Medieval Kabbalah
by
Joel Hecker
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2005
Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of mystical eating practices and experiences in the kabbalah. Focusing on the Jewish mystical literature of late-thirteenth-century Spain, author Joel Hecker analyzes the ways in which the Zohar and other contemporaneous literature represent...