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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
""An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism ... scholarly and complex."" #x97; Library Journal ""An excellent work, clear and solidly documented by Joseph Dan on Gershom Scholem and on his work."" #x97; Notes Bibliographiques ""An excellent guide to Scholem's work."" #x97; Christian Century
1. The man and the scholar -- 2. The early beginnings of Jewish mysticism -- 3. From the ancient east to the European Middle Ages -- 4. The Ashkenazi Hasidic movement -- 5. The enigmatic book Bahir -- 6. The early Kabbalah -- 7. From Gerona to the Zohar -- 8. The Zohar -- 9. From the Zohar to Safed -- 10. The Safed school of the Kabbalah -- 11. The Sabbatian upheaval -- 12. Hasidism and the modern period.