Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah : : New Insights and Scholarship /

Jewish Mysticism and Kabbalah : : New Insights and Scholarship / / ed. by Frederick E. Greenspahn.

Over the past generation, scholars have devoted increasing attention to the diverse forms that Jewish mysticism has taken both in the past and today: what was once called “nonsense” by Jewish scholars has generated important research and attention both within the academy and beyond, as demonstrated...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Coudert, Allison P.,
Fine, Lawrence,
Giller, Pinchas,
Goldish, Matt,
Lachter, Hartley,
Magid, Shaul,
Myers, Jody,
Swartz, Michael D.,
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava,
Wolfson, Elliot R.,
HerausgeberIn:
Greenspahn, Frederick E.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ; 2
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Reading Mysteries
  • I. JEWISH MYSTICISM TAKES SHAPE
  • 1 Ancient Jewish Mysticism
  • 2 The Zohar
  • 3 Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia and the Prophetic Kabbalah
  • 4 New Approaches to the Study of Kabbalistic Life in 16th-Century Safed
  • II. BECOMING MODERN
  • 5 Mystical Messianism
  • 6 Hasidism
  • 7 Christian Kabbalah
  • III. CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS
  • 8 Kabbalah at the Turn of the 21st Century
  • 9 Gender in Jewish Mysticism
  • Epilogue
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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