The scandal of Kabbalah Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice /

Dweck, Yaacob

The scandal of Kabbalah Leon Modena, Jewish mysticism, early modern Venice / [Texte imprimé] : Yaacob Dweck - Princeton : Princeton University Press, cop. 2011 - 1 vol. (280 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world . - Jews, Christians and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world (Princeton University Press, Princeton) .

Bibliogr. p. 239-272

Introduction -- 1. Hebrew manuscripts in an age of print -- 2. Early modern criticism of the Zohar -- 3. Guiding the perplexed -- 4. Safed in Venice -- 5. A Jewish response to Christian Kabbalah -- 6. The afterlife of Ari Nohem -- 7. Kabbalah and scholarship in the nineteenth century -- Epilogue

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Modena, Leone, 1571-1648 / Ari nohem Cabala / Controversial literature / History

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