Download or read book Language, Torah, and Hermeneutics in Abraham Abulafia written by Moshe Idel and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-12-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abraham Abulafia, the founder of the ecstatic Kabbalah, exposed a mysticism that includes a deep interest in language as a universe in itself, to be studied as the philosophers study nature, in order to attain higher knowledge than natural science and speculative philosophy. The status of Hebrew as the natural, intellectual, and primordial language is discussed against the background of the medieval speculations regarding this topic.