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1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) |
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Intellectual Climate in Prague at the Dawn of the Seventeenth Century -- The Cultural Context: Secondary Elites and the Popularization of Kabbalah -- Shifting Intellectual Boundaries: Transnational Kabbalistic Networks in Early Modernity -- Overview -- Chapter 1 Print Technology and Its Impact on Religious Consciousness -- Printing and Its Impact on Christianity -- Trajectories of Hebrew Printing -- Christian Consumers of Kabbalistic Books -- Printing Jewish Mysticism: The Zohar and Other Works -- Conclusion |
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Chapter 2 Cultural Agency and Printing in Early Modern Ashkenaz -- The Rise of New Agents of Culture in Early Modern Ashkenaz -- Rabbi Yissakhar Baer's Biography -- The Printers-The Gersonides Dynasty of Prague -- Chapter 3 Kabbalistic Abridgments and Their Cultural Impact -- The Use and Impact of Christian Reference Aids -- A Jewish Response to Printing: The Emergence of Shortcuts -- Abridgments to Works of Kabbalah -- Pitḥei Yah: A Digest to Cordovero's Pardes Rimonim -- Chapter 4 Zoharic Customs in a Halakhic Framework -- Halakhah and Kabbalah: Issues and Developments |
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Ritual Observance and the Sustenance of the Divine World: Yesh Sakhar -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Constructing a Zoharic Lexicon -- The Use of Lexical Aids among Humanist Scholars in Early Modern Europe -- "Entrance" into the Words of the Zohar: Lexicographic Practice in Kabbalah -- Offering Words of Understanding: Yissakhar Baer's Lexicon to the Zohar -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Plain Meaning of the Zohar: An Anthological Approach -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Influence of Kabbalistic Study Guides and Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Zohar.
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Zohar. |
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Zohar. |
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Zohar -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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Cabala -- Europe, Central -- History -- 17th century.
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Cabala. |
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Central Europe. |
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History. |
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17th century |
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Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central -- 17th century.
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Printing -- Social aspects. |
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Printing. |
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1600-1699 |
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 1438479719 9781438479712 (OCoLC)1154535784 |
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9781438479736 (electronic book) |
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1438479735 (electronic book) |
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1438479719 |
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9781438479712 |
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