Mystical bodies, mystical meals : eating and embodiment in medieval Kabbalah / Joel Hecker.
"Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of 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 represen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2005]
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| Series: | Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.
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| Summary: | "Mystical Bodies, Mystical Meals is the first book-length study of 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 mystical attainment in their homilies about eating. What emerges is not only consideration of eating practices but, more broadly, the effects such practices and experiences have on the bodies of its practitioners." "Using anthropology, sociology, ritual studies, and gender theory, Hecker accounts for the internal topography of the body as imaginatively conceived by kabbalists."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 282 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-270) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0814331815 9780814331811 |