COVER -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- EDITORIAL NOTE -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER ONE: Dimensions of mysticism -- CHAPTER TWO: The apocalyptic complex -- MYSTICISM AND PROPHECY -- CHAPTER THREE -- Introduction -- Ezekiel and the Elders of Judah: the workings of a prophetic trance -- Comments -- ESOTERIC MYSTICISM, MERKAVAH AND HEKHALOT -- CHAPTER FOUR -- Introduction -- Four entered the garden: normative religion versus illusion -- Comments -- CHAPTER FIVE -- Introduction -- The psychodynamics of merkavah mysticism -- METHODOLOGY -- CHAPTER SIX: Methodological reflections on psychoanalysis and Judaic studies: a response to Mortimer Ostow -- Comments -- SEX AND GENDER IN THE KABBALAH -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Sexual metaphors and praxis in the Kabbalah -- Comments -- CHAPTER EIGHT: Crossing gender boundaries in kabbalistic ritual and myth -- Comments -- COMMENTS ON IDEL AND WOLFSON -- EPILOGUE -- CHAPTER NINE: Concluding comments: union and reunion -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.