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

• 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
• 出版年: 2011
• 語言: English
• 叢編: Jewish Studies in the Twenty-First Century ; 2
• 實物描述: 1 online resource

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...

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