Kabbalah covers the whole spectrum of Jewish mystical literature, from antiquity to the present, including magic and Christian Kabbalah. Kabbalah is an independent and international academic journal which encourages the composition of studies and introductions to editions in English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, or Spanish. Each volume includes a listing of new books in the field. The journal is an invaluable resource for every research library and student of Jewish mysticism. Each volume 300-450 pages, hardbound only.
All studies are refereed.
Five volumes now available, each volume sold separately. Standing orders available to libraries only. In contrast to most other kabbalists from this period, about whom we know more of their literary productions than their biographies, in the case of Abulafia, we have a relative wealth of information concerning his personal life, largely due to the meticulous fashion that he demonstrated in his compositions. As the information we have about his personal life attests, Abulafia was a man of contradictions, an impression that is corroborated by the style of thinking and argumentation employed in his voluminous corpus. It has been commonplace in modern scholarship to distinguish sharply between two kinds of kabbalah, the theosophic and the ecstatic.