TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dweck,Yaacob
TI  - The scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice 
T2  - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
SN  - 9781400840007
AV  - BM526 .D84 2011eb
U1  - 296.1/6 23
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton, N.J., Oxford
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Modena, Leone,
KW  - Ari nohem (Modena, Leone)
KW  - fast
KW  - Cabala
KW  - Controversial literature
KW  - History
KW  - Kabbale
KW  - Ouvrages de controverse
KW  - Histoire
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Kabbalah & Mysticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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