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

Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Alter, Robert, 1935- [Verfass. eines Vorworts]

New York : Schocken Books, [1995] [© 1995]

xxxi, 460 Seiten : Illustration ; 21 cm

Englisch

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.

First Schocken paperback edition published in 1961. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-444) and index

0-8052-1042-3 ; 978-0-8052-1042-2

95002182

OCoLC: 32013850     

BM723

296.8/33     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Mysticism -- Judaism ; Cabala -- History

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