Title:
Kabbalah : a very short introduction / Joseph Dan.
Author:
Dan, Joseph, 1935-
Publication Information:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Call Number:
BM525 .D355 2007
ISBN:
9780195327052
Series:
Very short introductions ; 162
Very short introductions ; 162.
Physical Description:
xii, 130 p. ; 18 cm.
General Note:
Originally published: 2006.
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Contents:
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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