The scandal of Kabbalah

Dweck, Yaacob.

The scandal of Kabbalah Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice / [electronic resource] : Yaacob Dweck. - Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (280 p.) : ill. - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world . - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-272) and index.

Introduction -- 1. Hebrew manuscripts in an age of print -- 2. Early modern criticism of the Zohar -- 3. Guiding the perplexed -- 4. Safed in Venice -- 5. A Jewish response to Christian Kabbalah -- 6. The afterlife of Ari Nohem -- 7. Kabbalah and scholarship in the nineteenth century -- Epilogue.

9781400840007 (electronic bk.) 1400840007 (electronic bk.)


Modena, Leone, 1571-1648. Ari nohem.


Cabala--History.--Controversial literature
RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism


Electronic books.

BM526 / .D84 2011eb

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