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Suckling at my mother's breasts : the image of a nursing God in Jewish mysticism
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- Creator
- Ellen Davina Haskell
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- x, 193 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781438443829, 1438443811, 9781461917984, 9781438443812, 1461917980, 143844382X
- OCLC
- ocn760532708, ocn826652882
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Hebrew and Aramaic transliterations -- Introduction: kabbalistic images, relationality, and a breastfeeding God -- Chapt. I. Breastfeeding and religious transmission in rabbinic literature -- Chapt. II. suckling the divine overflow in early kabbalah -- Chapt. III. God as a nursing mother in Sefer ha-Zohar -- Chapt. IV. Concluding thoughts on the nursing divine