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The scandal of Kabbalah : Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice /
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.