What do the Angels Say?: Alterity and the Ascents of Emanuel Swedenborg and the Baal Shem Tov

This paper examines the history of boundary crossing and boundary preservation between Jews and Christians in the eighteenth century via an unorthodox path. Two men, a Swedish Lutheran natural philosopher and a charismatic Polish Rabbi, give their accounts of ascents to the heavens, both in the 1740...

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Main Author: Esterson, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2018
In: Open theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 4, Issue: 1, Pages: 414-421
Further subjects:B Phenomenology
B Eighteenth Century
B Religious Experience
B Emmanuel Levinas
B Emanuel Swedenborg
B Baal Shem Tov
B Scripture
B Kabbalah
B Hasidism
B Alterity
B Jewish-Christian relations
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