A History of Kabbalah

ISBN-13: 9781316607022 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 332 str.

Jonathan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Garb

Opis

A narrative history of modern Kabbalah, from the sixteenth century till today, in the general context of modernization.

Recenzje

'Jonathan Garb, a leading scholar of Jewish mysticism, offers a lucid, broad, multifaceted, benchmark account of the narrative and cultural history of modern Kabbalah from the spiritual revolution that ignited in the Galilean town of Safed in the 16th century to postmodern new-age religion … Recommended.' D. B. Levy, Choice Connect

Spis treści

1. Pre-Modern and Modern Kabbalah: Breaks and Continuities; 2. The Safedian Revolution of the Sixteenth Century ; 3. The Kabbalistic Crisis of the Seventeenth Century; 4. Canonization: The Eighteenth Century; 5. Beginnings of Globalization: The Nineteenth Century; 6. Destruction and Triumph: The Twentieth Century; 7. Recurrent Themes: Gender, Messianism and Experience?; Appendix; Glossary; Bibliography; Index