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Author Dweck, Yaacob.

Title The scandal of Kabbalah : Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice / Yaacob Dweck
Published Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages) : illustrations
Series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world
Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Modena, Leone, 1571-1648. Ari nohem.
SUBJECT Modena, Leone, 1571-1648. Ari nohem
Ari nohem (Modena, Leone) fast
Subject Cabala -- Controversial literature -- History
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Kabbalah & Mysticism.
RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
Cabala
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400840007
1400840007
9781283114998
1283114992