Format:
xxxi, 460 Seiten
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Illustration
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21 cm
ISBN:
0805210423
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9780805210422
Uniform Title:
Major trends in Jewish mysticism
Note:
First Schocken paperback edition published in 1961
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-444) and index
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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.
Language:
English
Author information:
Scholem, Gershom 1897-1982
Author information:
Alter, Robert 1935-