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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dweck, Yaacob (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; 43
Temas:
Cabala > Controversial literature > History.
RELIGION / Judaism / History.
Ari Nohem.
Bible.
Christian Kabbalah.
Christianity.
Cordovero.
Elijah Benamozegh.
Guide of the Perplexed.
Hasidism.
Hebrew printing.
Isaac Haver Wildmann.
Isaac Luria.
Isaac Reggio.
Israel Saruq.
Jewish Kabbalah.
Jewish community.
Jewish intellectuals.
Jewish law.
Jewish life.
Jewish modernity.
Jewish theology.
Jewish tradition.
Julius Frst.
Kabbalah.
Leon Modena.
Maimonides.
Pardes Rimonim.
Pico della Mirandola.
Sabbatai Zevi.
Sabbatianism.
Safed Kabbalah.
Solomon Rosenthal.
Venetian Jews.
Zohar.
antiquity.
contemporary Jewish life.
divine being.
early modern Venice.
esoteric information.
esoteric kabbalistic treatises.
esoteric secrets.
esotericism.
exegesis.
kabbalistic books.
kabbalistic hermeneutics.
kabbalistic theology.
manuscript production.
modernity.
mystical symbolism.
philosophic knowledge.
philosophy.
printed book.
pseudepigraphic.
ritual practices.
sacred texts.
sefirot.
theosophical Kabbalah.
theurgic powers.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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