Kabbalah : a very short introduction / Joseph Dan.
By: Dan, Joseph
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TextSeries: Very Short Introductions: 162.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: xi, 130 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0195300343 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9780195300345; 9780195327052Subject(s): CabalaDDC classification: 296.1/6 LOC classification: BM525 | .D355 2006
Contents:
Review: "In Kabbalah, Joseph Dan debunks the myths surrounding modern Kabbalistic practice, offering an engaging and dependable account of this traditional Jewish religious phenomenon and its impact outside of Judaism."--Jacket.
Kabbalah: the term and its meanings -- Ancient Jewish mysticism and the emergence of the kabbalah -- The kabbalah in the Middle Ages -- Main ideas of the medieval kabbalah -- Modern times I: the Christian kabbalah -- Modern times II: safed and the lurianic kabbalah -- Modern times III: the sabbatian messianic movement -- Modern and contemporary hasidism -- Some aspects of contemporary kabbalah.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-117) and index.
Kabbalah: the term and its meanings -- Ancient Jewish mysticism and the emergence of the kabbalah -- The kabbalah in the Middle Ages -- Main ideas of the medieval kabbalah -- Modern times I: the Christian kabbalah -- Modern times II: safed and the lurianic kabbalah -- Modern times III: the sabbatian messianic movement -- Modern and contemporary hasidism -- Some aspects of contemporary kabbalah.
"In Kabbalah, Joseph Dan debunks the myths surrounding modern Kabbalistic practice, offering an engaging and dependable account of this traditional Jewish religious phenomenon and its impact outside of Judaism."--Jacket.
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