Images of Torah: From the Second-Temple Period to the Middle Ages

Contents
Acknowledgements
Tables
Abbreviations
Introduction
	1	Originality, Significance and Critical Implications of This Research
	2	Statement of Problem, Current Research and Critical Questions
	3	Research Methodology: Grounding in Moshe Idel’s Panoramic Approach
		3.1	Idel’s Phenomenology: Models and Panoramic Approach
		3.2	Idel’s Panoramic Approach: The History of Ideas Based on Experience
	4	Research Methodology with an Outline of Chapters
Part 1 Images of Torah in the Second Temple
and Rabbinic Periods
	1
Hypostatic Notions Linked to the Concept of Torah
		1	The Conceptual and Historical Backdrops of Torah
		2	Various Derivative Forms of Hypostatic Notions Linked to the Concept of Torah
			2.1	Personified Wisdom in Proverbs
			2.2	Personified Wisdom in Sirach, the Wisdom of Solomon, and Qumran Texts
			2.3	Philo’s Logos
			2.4	The Johannine Logos
			2.5	Memra
			2.6	Shekhinah
		3	Intertextual and Theological Nexuses between the Hypostatic Notions of Torah
		4	Theological and Phenomenological Implications
	2 The Images of Torah in Early Christianity
and Multifaceted Judaism
		1	Torah, the Foundation of Jesus as Personified Wisdom and Incarnate Logos
		2	Jesus in the Gospels as a Derivative Form of the Hypostatic Notions of Torah
			2.1	Jesus as Incarnate Logos in the Fourth Gospel
			2.2	Jesus as Personified Wisdom in the Synoptics
		3	Three Images of Torah: Angelic, Messianic, and God-Like
			3.1	An Angelic Image of the Hypostatic Notions of Torah
			3.2	A God-Like Image of the Hypostatic Notions of Torah
			3.3	A Messianic Image of the Hypostatic Notions of Torah
				3.3.1	A Messianic Image Related to an Angelic Image of Torah
				3.3.2	A Messianic Image Related to a God-Like Image of Torah
		4	Critical Findings and Implications: Exegetical and Phenomenological
			4.1	Supposed Primitive Forms of the Images of Torah as a Mediator
			4.2	Two Supposed Primitive Traditions: Logos-Centered and Wisdom-Centered
			4.3	Theological and Phenomenological Implications
Part 2 Images of Torah from the Second Temple Period
to the Middle Ages
	Introduction to Part 2
	3
An Angelic Image of Torah in the Medieval Jewish Philosophical Tradition
		1	The Continuity of Angelic Images of Torah: From the Logos to the Active Intellect
		2	Angelic Images of Torah Related to the Idea of Devekut to the Logos and Active Intellect
			2.1	In Philonic Thought
			2.2	The Idea of Devekut to the Active Intellect in the Thought of Maimonides
			2.3	The Idea of Noetic Union: Maimonides, Gersonides, and Islamic Philosophers
			2.4	In the Thought of Abulafia and Gikatilla Based on Maimonides
	4
A God-Like Image of Torah in the Medieval Jewish Mystical Tradition
		1	The Continuity of God-Like Images of Torah in the Sefirot
		2	God-Like Image of Torah Related to the Idea of Unio Mystica to the Sefirot
			2.1	In the Philonic Tradition
			2.2	In the Bahiric and Geronese Traditions
			2.3	In the Abulafian Tradition
			2.4	In the Zoharic and Gikatillian Traditions
		3	Critical Findings and Implications
	5
A Messianic Image of Torah in the Jewish Philosophic and Mystical Tradition
		1	The Continuity of Messianic Images of Torah
		2	Messianic Image of Torah Related to the Ideas of Devekut and Unio Mystica
			2.1	In the Thought of Medieval Jewish Philosophers
			2.2	In the Abulafian Tradition
			2.3	In the Zoharic and Gikatillian Traditions
	6 Phenomenological Analysis of Images of Torah from the Second Temple Period through the
Middle Ages
		1	On the Angelic Image of Torah
		2	On the God-Like Image of Torah
		3	On the Messianic Image of Torah
		4	Reconsidering Idel’s Panoramic Approach: The Images of Torah as Model and Phenomenology
	Conclusion
Afterword
Bibliography
Index of Ancient and Medieval Sources
Index of Subjects
Index of Modern Authors