Through a Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish MysticismA comprehensive treatment of visionary experience in some of the main texts of Jewish mysticism, this book reveals the overwhelmingly visual nature of religious experience in Jewish spirituality from antiquity through the late Middle Ages. Using phenomenological and critical historical tools, Wolfson examines Jewish mystical texts from late antiquity, pre kabbalistic sources from the tenth to the twelfth centuries, and twelfth and thirteenth century