Author Description

Explores How The Great Mystics And Mystical Traditions Use, Interpret, And Reconstruct The Sacred Scriptures Of Their Traditions. -- From Publisher Description. 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. Edited By Steven T. Katz. Includes Bibliographical References.