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.