Cultic and further orders : semiotics of a Kabbalistic culture

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\n1. The Disclosure of Sense and Order: Rhetoric and Hermeneutic Modes of Kabbalistic Semiotics\n	1 Rhetorical Patterns. The Quest for an Organization of Knowledge\n		1.1 Collecting and Rearranging Stances in Two 16th-Century Kabbalistic Commentaries\n		1.2 A Kabbalistic Cultural Subset and Its Strategies for Cultural Memory\n		1.3 Some Emblematic Discussions on Morning Rituals\n	2 Hermeneutic Perspectives. Proliferation and Articulation of Meanings\n		2.1 Unfolding Layers of Meaning and Reality\n		2.2 Constructing Patterns of Order\n		2.3 Binary Oppositions and Vertical Connections\n2. The Imagery of Cosmic and Human Orders: Semantic Dimensions of Kabbalistic Semiotics\n	1 Cosmological Assumptions. Establishment and Maintenance of Orders\n		1.1 A Mixture of Imaginative Patterns of Different Origin\n		1.2 Forms of Mediation and Supernal Structures\n		1.3 Anthropomorphic Orders and Ritual Orders\n		1.4 The Impact of Human Action on the Cosmic Architectonics\n	2 Lexical and Narrative Semantics. Reviving Cosmic Orders through Ritual Orders\n		2.1 Mythical Accounts on the Restoring Power of Human Action\n		2.2 The Use of s-d-r and the Related Narrative Elaboration\n3. The Focus on Ritual Sequences: Syntactic Aspects of Kabbalistic Semiotics\n	1 Dwelling on the Formal Structures of Cultic Life\n		1.1 The Engagement of all Ritual Dimensions, and the Triadic Pattern Thought-Speech-Act\n		1.2 The Attention to all Ritual Items, Including Formal Units and Sequences\n	2 Re-Organizing the Ritual Syntax\n		2.1 Narrow Sequels\n		2.2 Broader Structures\n		2.3 Temporal Patterns\n	3 Generating Mythical and Mystical Accounts from Ritual Syntax\n		3.1 The Disclosure of Deep Syntactic Orders\n		3.2 The Elaboration of Dense Narrative Sequences and Ascending Experiential Routes\n4. The Construction of a Liturgical-Mystical Discipline: Pragmatic Effects of Kabbalistic Semiotics\n	1 Remolding, Extending and Intensifying Institutional Halakhic Orders\n		1.1 Conservative Reinforcement through Renewal\n		1.2 Variation and Change in Social Pragmatics\n		1.3 The Production of Directional Mystical Techniques\n	2 Shaping Kabbalistically-Oriented Community Conduct and Experience\n		2.1 Elements of Distinction and Cohesion\n		2.2 Towards a Communal Mystical Discipline?\n		2.3 Hypotheses on Psychosocial Effects\n		2.4 Reflections on Socio-Cultural Functions\nFinal Remarks: Kabbalistic Orders from the Perspective of Cultural Semiotics\n	1 The Search for Methodologies Moving between Structure and History\n	2 On Semiotics of Culture and Its Fecundity for Kabbalah Studies\n	3 On Ordering and Disordering Vectors in Kabbalistic Literature\nBibliography\n	Basic Primary Sources\n	Secondary Literature\nIndex