Kabbalah in Print - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Kabbalah in Print write by Andrea Gondos. This book was released on 2020-11-01. Kabbalah in Print available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demonstrates the impact of print culture on the spread of Jewish mysticism, focusing on Kabbalistic study guides by R. Yissakhar Baer of seventeenth-century Prague. How did Jewish mysticism go from arcane knowledge to popular spirituality? Kabbalah in Print examines the cultural impact of printing on the popularization, circulation, and transmission of Kabbalah in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Zohar, in particular, generated a large secondary literature of study guides and reference works that aimed to ease the linguistic and conceptual challenges of the text. The arrival of printed classics of Kabbalah was soon followed by the appearance of new literary genres—anthologies, digests, lexicons, and other learning aids—that mediated mystical primary sources to a community of readers not versed in this lore. A detailed investigation of the four works by R. Yissakhar Baer (ca.1580–ca.1629) of Prague sheds light on the literary strategies, pedagogic concerns, and religious motivations of secondary elites, a new cadre of authors empowered by the opportunities that printing opened up. Andrea Gondos highlights shifting intellectual and cultural boundaries in the early modern period, when the transmission of Kabbalah became a meeting point connecting various strata of Jewish society as well as Jewish and Christian intellectuals. Andrea Gondos is Emmy Noether Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Jewish Studies at Free University Berlin, Germany. She is the coeditor (with Daniel Maoz) of From Antiquity to the Postmodern World: Contemporary Jewish Studies in Canada.
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah write by Moshe Idel. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents important topics regarding the more mystical trend of Kabbalah—the ecstatic Kabbalah. It includes the mystical union, the world of imagination, and concentration as a spiritual technique. The emphasis in the text is on the interaction between the "original" Spanish stage of Kabbalah and Muslim mysticism in the East, mainly in the Galilee. The influence of the Kabbalistic-Sufic synthesis on the later developments of Jewish mysticism is traced, thereby providing a more precise understanding of the history of Kabbalah as an interplay between the theosophical and ecstatic mystical experiences.
Between Kant and Kabbalah
Between Kant and Kabbalah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Kant and Kabbalah write by Alan L. Mittleman. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Between Kant and Kabbalah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Detective Dave and his crime-solving mother return to take on the religious establishment out West, as Mom traces the connection between a small-time preacher's murder, some shady real estate promoters, the High Episcopal Church, and assorted fanatics
Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment
Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment write by Daniel Chanan Matt. This book was released on 1983. Zohar, the Book of Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first translation with commentary of selections from The Zohar, the major text of the Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition. This work was written in 13th-century Spain by Moses de Leon, a Spanish scholar.
Origins of the Kabbalah
Origins of the Kabbalah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins of the Kabbalah write by Gershom Gerhard Scholem. This book was released on 2019-02-26. Origins of the Kabbalah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With the publication of The Origins of the Kabbalah in 1950, one of the most important scholars of our century brought the obscure world of Jewish mysticism to a wider audience for the first time. A crucial work in the oeuvre of Gershom Scholem, this book details the beginnings of the Kabbalah in twelfth- and thirteenth-century southern France and Spain, showing its rich tradition of repeated attempts to achieve and portray direct experiences of God. The Origins of the Kabbalah is a contribution not only to the history of Jewish medieval mysticism, but also to the study of medieval mysticism in general. Now with a new foreword by David Biale, this book remains essential reading for students of the history of religion.
