The Scandal of Kabbalah : : Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice / / Yaacob Dweck.
The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 13 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One. Hebrew Manuscripts in an Age of Print
- Chapter Two. Early Modern Criticism of the Zohar
- Chapter Three. Guiding the Perplexed
- Chapter Four. Safed in Venice
- Chapter five. A Jewish Response to Christian Kabbalah
- Chapter Six. The Afterlife of Ari Nohem
- Chapter Seven. Kabbalah and Scholarship in the Nineteenth Century
- EPILOGUE. History of a Failure
- Acknowledgments
- Works Cited
- Index