| Description |
1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
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Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Hebrew manuscripts in an age of print -- 2. Early modern criticism of the Zohar -- 3. Guiding the perplexed -- 4. Safed in Venice -- 5. A Jewish response to Christian Kabbalah -- 6. The afterlife of Ari Nohem -- 7. Kabbalah and scholarship in the nineteenth century -- Epilogue. |
| Summary |
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 of Jewish mysticism, Kabbalah spread throughout the early modern world and became a central feature of Jewish life. Scholars have long studied the revolutionary impact of Kabbalah, but, as Yaacob Dweck argues, they have misunderstood the character and timing of opposition to it. Drawing on a range o. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648. Ari nohem.
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Cabala -- Controversial literature -- History.
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Cabala. |
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Controversial literature. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dweck, Yaacob. Scandal of Kabbalah. Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011 9780691145082 (DLC) 2010049226 (OCoLC)689003613 |
| ISBN |
9781400840007 (electronic book) |
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1400840007 (electronic book) |
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9780691145082 |
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0691145083 |
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0691162158 |
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9780691162157 |
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