The scandal of Kabbalah : Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice /
Dweck, Yaacob.
The scandal of Kabbalah : Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice / Yaacob Dweck. - Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world . - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.
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.
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.
9781400840007 1400840007 9781283114998 1283114992
22573/cttwdft JSTOR
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648. Ari nohem.
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648. Ari nohem.
Ari nohem (Modena, Leone)
Cabala--History.--Controversial literature
Kabbale--Histoire.--Ouvrages de controverse
RELIGION--Judaism--Kabbalah & Mysticism.
RELIGION--Judaism--History.
Cabala
Electronic books.
BM526 / .D84 2011eb
296.1/6
The scandal of Kabbalah : Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice / Yaacob Dweck. - Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011. - 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world . - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.
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.
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.
9781400840007 1400840007 9781283114998 1283114992
22573/cttwdft JSTOR
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648. Ari nohem.
Modena, Leone, 1571-1648. Ari nohem.
Ari nohem (Modena, Leone)
Cabala--History.--Controversial literature
Kabbale--Histoire.--Ouvrages de controverse
RELIGION--Judaism--Kabbalah & Mysticism.
RELIGION--Judaism--History.
Cabala
Electronic books.
BM526 / .D84 2011eb
296.1/6