ix, 260 pages ; 25 cm; Mysticism and the interpretation of sacred scripture / Steven T. Katz -- Mystical identity and scriptural justification / Shlomo Biderman -- The Zohar as exegesis / Moshe Idel -- The Book of Zohar and exegetical spirituality / Michael Fishbane -- The fourfold sense of scripture in Christian mysticism / Ewert Cousins -- Classical Sufi approaches to scripture / Peter Awn -- Ibn al-ʻArabi's hermeneutics of mercy / William C. Chittick -- Sacred scriptures and the mysticism of Advaita Vedānta / Arvind Sharma -- Mystical cognition and canonical authority: the devotional mysticism of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa / Barbara A. Holdrege -- Experiencing scriptural diversity: words and stories in Hindu tradition / Daniel Gold -- Mysticism and scripture in Theravāda Buddhism / Ninian Smart -- Tao, world, and mind: mystical adaptations of the Taoist classics / Livia Kohn.; Explores how the great mystics and mystical traditions use, interpret, and reconstruct the sacred scriptures of their traditions. -- from PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION.; 

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