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Major trends in Jewish mysticism / Gershom Scholem ; foreword by Robert Alter

Englisch

New York : Schocken Books, [1995]

© 1995

xxxi, 460 Seiten : Illustration ; 21 cm

Scholem, Gershom *1897-1982*. Major trends in Jewish mysticism

First Schocken paperback edition published in 1961

Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-444) and index

0-8052-1042-3

978-0-8052-1042-2

General characteristics of Jewish mysticism -- Merkabah mysticism or Jewish gnosticism -- Hasidism in mediaeval Germany -- Abraham Abulafia and the doctrine of prophetic kabbalism -- The Zohar I: the book and its author -- The Zohar II: the theosophic doctrine of the Zohar -- Isaac Luria and his school -- Sabbatianism and mystical heresy -- Hasidism: the latest phase.

*Mysticism -- Judaism ; Cabala -- History

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BM723

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 296.8/33;

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/95002182-b.html [Autorenbiografie]

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0601/95002182-d.html [Verlagsangaben]

Bibliothek des Abraham Geiger Kollegs

Sammlung Emil L. Fackenheim des Abraham Geiger Kollegs

Reprinted from the third revised edition