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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Erscheinungsjahr: | 2011 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Serie: | Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ;
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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