It takes the average reader 11 hours and 50 minutes to read Absorbing Perfections by Moshe Idel
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In this wide-ranging discussion of Kabbalah—from the mystical trends of medieval Judaism to modern Hasidism—one of the world’s foremost scholars considers different visions of the nature of the sacred text and of the methods to interpret it. Moshe Idel takes as a starting point the fact that the postbiblical Jewish world lost its geographical center with the destruction of the temple and so was left with a textual center, the Holy Book. Idel argues that a text-oriented religion produced language-centered forms of mysticism. Against this background, the author demonstrates how various Jewish...
Absorbing Perfections by Moshe Idel is 688 pages long, and a total of 177,504 words.
This makes it 232% the length of the average book. It also has 217% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 16 hours and 9 minutes to read Absorbing Perfections aloud.
Absorbing Perfections is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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