Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah
Subtitle: new insights and scholarship
By: edited by Frederick E. Greenspahn
Series: Jewish studies in the 21st century
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780814732861; 9780814732885; 9780814733196
Subjects: Mysticism; Cabala; Judaism; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : reading mysteries: the origins of scholarship on Jewish mysticism / Hartley Lachter; title: Ancient Jewish mysticism / Michael D. Swartz; title: The Zohar : masterpiece of Jewish mysticism / Eitan P. Fishbane; title: Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia and the prophetic Kabbalah / Elliot R. Wolfson; title: New approaches to the study of kabbalistic life in sixteenth-century in Safed / Lawrence Fine; title: Mystical messianism : from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / Matt Goldish; title: Hasidism : mystical and non-mystical approaches to interpreting Scripture / Shaul Magid; title: Christian Kabbalah / Allison P. Coudert; title: Kabbalah at the turn of the 21st century / Jody Myers; title: Gender in Jewish mysticism / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson; title: Epilogue : Kabbalah and contemporary Judaism / Pinchas Giller.